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How to Handle the Urge for Recklessness After Decades of Responsibility

I have been the responsible one my entire life and now my kids are grown and I want to do something completely reckless but I do not even know what that would look like.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A lifetime of duty has created a self that yearns for its own undoing.

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