How Do You Think You'll Feel in Five Years?

Stephanie Coontz: What does it mean to say, i am satisfied with my life? She says the question is asking about how your life is measuring up to your expectations. As you're just getting older, she says, you lower your expectations for what you would expect out of your life. So when we're in middle age, we're still really crappy at predicting our feelings, coontz says.