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By the time women hit their 50s, more than 80 percent will have been on birth control pills for an average of five years.

I didn’t think my divorce being final would matter all that much, emotionally speaking. Legally, of course, it means everything.

My first hour on the island of Menorca, on a sunny, warm day that was slipping into night, was spent at a local swimming hole a short walk from the old port town of Ciutadella.

October 27th was the last time I did Botox. It may not seem that long ago, nor may the exact date feel important, but it set in motion a stopwatch inside my brain.

My mother developed symptoms of frontotemporal dementia when I was 27. She was 61.

In your interview with registered dietician Debra Benfield, you brought up the stigma of mom, which is how we code middle-aged women as “mom,” whether they have kids or not.

A few months ago, it was brought to my attention that my spending had gone a bit rogue. By “brought to my attention,” I mean I looked at my credit card statement and gasped at the total.

If you’re over the age of 40 and have never been vaccinated for HPV, it’s not too late for you to protect yourself against the most commonly contracted STD in the country.

It didn’t take long after I ended my 12-year marriage for me to get on Tinder. I’d met my ex-husband in high school; he was the third person I ever dated; and we’d been married since we were 22.

I was 21 years old when I plotted to throw out as many bags of my mom’s belongings as I could while she was out of town for work. That was the summer of 2002.

Suzette Mullen knows what it’s like to start over. In her 50s, she came to realize she was a lesbian, a truth she’d turned away from for years

A few years ago, I started a new habit that became a family tradition. Throughout the year, I kept an ongoing list of my children’s accomplishments to read to them on January 1st of the following year.