I asked 15 therapists what their clients in their 40s most commonly grieve and not one of them said a relationship or a career. Every single one described the same loss in different words.

AI BRIEFING

• ⬤ The 40s are often a decade of unmet expectations.
• ⬤ Many people in their 40s grieve the person they thought they'd become.
• ⬤ Therapists describe a common loss as the realization that their lives haven't lived up to their youthful ambitions.