Asking for more of your helpful thoughts

By |2024-08-30T14:33:32+01:00August 9th, 2024|Categories: Midlife, Project Happier, Relationships, Surveys|Tags: , , , |

Happy Friday! It's just a quick post today because I'm pleased to say that I've actually begun the writing phase of the book and now I find I can't stop. I should have just sat down and started typing ages ago but I've been churning in a state of not feeling qualified to do it. However by beginning with a couple of the chapters that come to me easily, I'm now getting somewhere. There is one area where I [...]

Midlife relationships & sex – the empty nest

By |2024-07-27T08:24:05+01:00July 26th, 2024|Categories: Family, Midlife, Relationships|Tags: , , , |

Ok, so a couple of weeks ago I promised to write a longer post for people who are approaching the empty nest and wondering what's next for their relationship. I'm also being told that if my book is to be fully representative of midlife onwards it needs to talk intelligently and sensitively about sex because it's such an important part of it all. So I'm practicing on you because I always feels like I'm talking to friends and I [...]

Midlife – as your family moves on, so does your life

By |2023-07-28T17:24:15+01:00July 28th, 2023|Categories: Family, Project Happier, Relationships, Style|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

And so, as you'll know if you follow my Instagram feed, there was a big day for our family a couple of weeks ago. It was the middle one's graduation, a day I found myself completely unprepared for in terms of impact. It was a bit like pregnancy when you find yourself so focused on the birth that it's almost a shock when you have to take the baby home with you afterwards and you realise that in the [...]

The empty nest – how we’re coping with the end of days

By |2021-09-22T17:16:02+01:00September 22nd, 2021|Categories: Family, Midlife, Project Happier, Relationships|Tags: , , , , , |

The end of days And just like that they've flown. After 25 years of family life our nest is empty and it's the moment I've been dreading since my boys first arrived and filled our home with love, mischief and laughter. I distinctly remember holding each one of them for the first time and feeling so many things: joy, awe, responsibility, love... all tinged with an awareness that I was heading on a journey that would be over before I'd [...]

How love broke and remade me – a midlife perspective

By |2021-02-12T16:59:06+00:00February 12th, 2021|Categories: Midlife, Project Happier, Relationships|Tags: , , , , |

Well as you may have seen on Instagram, we had a big celebration in our house this week because on Wednesday it was our 20th wedding anniversary. And I know that immediately some of you will do the maths and think but surely the eldest is 24? And you're right. You see there's a story behind our story that I've never told but today feels like the day to do it. It isn't going to be easy to write and [...]

Some thoughts about our midlife Valentines

By |2018-02-09T17:07:28+00:00February 9th, 2018|Categories: Midlife, Project Happier, Relationships|Tags: , , , |

It's the time of year when everyone's thoughts turn to love. Whether you like it or not, you are surrounded by hearts and flowers and meal deals for two. I have been endlessly prodded by retailers to create lists of things we should buy to prove to our loves how treasured they are. And as I've been drafting emails in reply, explaining why I'm not running a "50 things to buy your Valentine" post, it's made me think hard about [...]

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