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When your primary identity ends and you don't know what's left

I'm 45 and my kids are grown and I realized I have no idea what I want from life anymore because everything was about being their mother.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Role transitions can reveal how much of our sense of self depended on external functions rather than internal knowing.

Ideas that help explain it
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