The mental block that she had feared would cripple her for life had crumbled away.

The narrator's domestic life, described as an idyll, crumbles to nothing, but the failure goes almost unnoticed.

This pillar of strength on which she had depended was crumbling and her life was crumbling with it.

One answer is that his life crumbled along with the Communist experiment.

As her emotional life crumbled, Linda's financial problems mounted.

You can't let your whole life crumble just because the skin starts to.

This was: Sleep won't save you, Em; your life is crumbling.

But in the early 80's, he says, his young daughter died of leukemia and his life crumbled.

Within the last few minutes her life had crumbled around her.

"My whole life is crumbling around me and you expect me to notice what time it is?"