Surviving Myself: Three Years After Losing Everything By: A 52-Year-Old Man Still Standing Survival isn’t always out in the woods. Sometimes it’s in your own damn head.Three years ago, I found myself stripped down to nothing—marriage gone, family fractured, future blank. You don’t expect to start over in your fifties, but life doesn’t really ask your permission. It just knocks you flat and waits to see if you get up. The First Blow When everything falls apart, you start to re