Is My Husband Having a Mid-Life Crisis?

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Theresa's husband's new hobby is forcing her to consider divorce. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Teresa, welcome to the program. Yes. Hi, Dr. Laura. I just have a question. I don't quite know how to feel about it.
0:24.2	I'll just jump right in.
0:27.0	I'm 68, my husband's 62.
0:31.3	We've been married 25 years.
0:32.6	It's our second marriage.
0:34.4	And he is currently has a new hobby. And it is, it is, he loves rockability all of
0:46.7	for the last year. And it evolved with liking cars. And we both like antique cars together, classic cars.
0:56.3	But there was a few times I couldn't go with him last year,
1:00.5	and he stumbled upon this rockabilly culture, and he really loves it.
1:07.9	And I don't have a problem with it except that it's there's a lot of um
1:13.3	pinup girls and they do contests and they're nice people and nothing wrong with that
1:21.0	everybody do it on thing but he likes to um take pictures of them um with them on a car in various positions.
1:33.3	And they're like mostly in their 40s.
1:37.3	And he likes to hang with them and he's online with them.
1:42.3	He likes their pictures. And a lot of their pictures are garter belts, and they're not overly nude, but he does like that.
1:52.5	And I'm telling him I don't feel comfortable with it.
1:56.9	I don't think it respects me, and I just don't know what to think about it. If I should just
2:03.5	drop it, let him do his hobby. But maybe in 68, I have nothing in common with these 40-ish
2:09.2	year old women in garter belts and tattoos. It's a whole culture of that with rockabilly music,
2:16.9	which I love the music's good. but anyway, I don't know how to
2:20.9	think about it if I should just drop it or just...
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