By Someonewise 
After 45, love yourself more than anyone else.
Your children are self-sufficient—let them shape and take charge of their own lives.
Your spouse is not going to change—stop exhausting yourself trying.
The hard truth?
Peace begins where expectations end.
Ignore what disturbs you.
Not everything deserves your reaction.
Protect your happiness so fiercely that nothing and no one can shake it.
Because you don’t have as many healthy years ahead as you’ve already lived.
So live each day like it matters.
Do what fulfills you.
Choose what makes you happy.
And stop looking for validation—
you don’t need permission to live your own life.