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Midlife crisis: Men behaving badly

By Anthony Ngare

A greying pot-bellied man pulls up to a popular nightclub in a gleaming brand-new sports car he can ill afford. He steps out with his girlfriend, a scantily dressed model barely out of her teens. His fashion conscious 25-year-old son would not be caught dead in the clothes he is wearing — he looks like a cross between a pimp and a teenage gangsta rapper! The mismatched couple proceed to dance the night away. Is anything wrong with this picture? Not if you appreciate that the man is in the throes of midlife crisis.

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