Navigating life into your mid and eventually, ugh, late 30's is much different than your mid/late 20's. Artificial time limits that we impose on ourselves for many of life's milestones seem increasingly close and their goals seem increasingly distant as the years tick forward. It is important however to remember that these milestones are not actually set in stone. They take work. Sometimes a lot of work. And they don't have an actual timeline. In my 20's I believed by 36 I would be married to a good man. Have a family. A career. A home. And that things would be, in all, pretty decent. All the hard work of my early 20's would pay off and all of these milestones would be reached. But of course, we're all a little naive about these things. We have emotional responses to them which sometimes cloud logic. Three years back, I was in a relationship. I had a good paying job. And, as should come as a surprise to ...