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More commonly referred to as Middle Child Syndrome, I heard this term quite regularly when I was growing up.  Any time I expressed any kind of jealousy or upset about the way I was treated, I was told, don’t tell me you’re suffering from middle-itis?”  I had no idea what this meant except that it was a way of dismissing my feelings and shutting down my complaints. Middle Child Syndrome is a theory first introduced by Austrian psychoanalyst Alfred Adler, in the early 20th cent

On Jan. 22nd, 2017, my husband passed away from a sudden heart attack. He was 42 years old. This left my 3-year old daughter and I alone, in a strange place, with strange people, on the worst day of our lives. We had just moved from Windsor, Ontario, that December, to Whitecourt, Alberta. My husband and I had taken ownership of a No Frills grocery franchise that promised to give us some long-awaited financial freedom. Something he had been working towards for more than 2