Middle-Aged Women are Has-Beens

Mia Hayes
5 min readOct 11, 2022

And we should stop trying to be relevant

Photo by Anna Shvets: pexels

It wasn’t anything I hadn’t heard or read before but this time, it was directed at me.

“Your outfit is cute. It’s something my daughter would wear,” the woman standing in line behind me said with a smirk. She, herself, had on skinny jeans, knee boots, and a drapey cold-shoulder sweater — a choice many women my age make.

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Mia Hayes

40-something trying to live several lifetimes at once. Stay-at-home author, mom, and wife.