Joyce Marter recently wrote a Psych Central blog on ways to get out of a rut during midlife parenthood. An excerpt from the blog is included below:

“It’s very common for parents to feel bored, stuck or stagnant when the kids are getting older and it feels like many of the exciting milestones have passed and now you are sitting in the same house, with the same partner, not planning to have more kids and nothing new on the horizon. It’s as if many of us know what we want to do with ourselves until midlife and then it somehow the path becomes less clear and defined (continued)…”