Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.
If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?
To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.