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Question:I feel like being a mother was my only purpose? Now what.

Kids are college graduated and married. I have a mid life crisis husband, I have a job that somedays I feel like I am drinking the Kool-Aid, and I feel numb, life If on hold, like what am I going to do for the next 30 years, after kids. I really have no hobbies, and basically don't have any goals or dreams, because when I have taken a risk before, it ends badly.

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