This is 40-something ❤️ Written and read by Leslie Means

Leslie’s life was a beautifully chaotic mess, much like the movie where she (played by Leslie Mann ) and her husband Pete (Paul Rudd) navigated the brutal, hilarious honesty of middle age. Her days were a blur of:

One evening, after a particularly long day of failing businesses and hormone-driven tears, Leslie and Pete sat on the patio. In a moment of "brutal honesty," they shared dark, funny fantasies about how they’d "accidentally" get rid of each other—Leslie joked about poisoning his cupcakes, and Pete joked about her feral cats eventually eating her hair.