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This woman took a mid-life gap year (and left her family behind)

Michelle Bowes

Having a midlife crisis is nothing new, but it is more typically associated with men buying sports cars than women running away from family life.

But that’s exactly what Sydney’s Monique van Tulder did when, at 54, she went to the family’s beach house in the Whitsundays to do some routine maintenance – and didn’t return home for eight months.

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Michelle Bowes writes about wealth from our Sydney newsroom. She has more than 20 years of experience as a business journalist and is the author of Money Queens: Rule your Money, an award-winning personal finance book for teenage girls. Email Michelle at michelle.bowes@afr.com

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