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Postcards From Midlife

Ask us anything: will he forgive my affair, my teen daughter won’t lose weight & my adult kids want ‘low/no’ contact

Postcards From Midlife

Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin

Menopause, Culture, Nutrition, 579985, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Mental Health, Women, Midlife Women, Midlife, Relationships, Kids & Family, Health, Perimenopause, Lifestyle

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Lorraine & Trish turn agony aunts & delve into their (digital) postbag to solve listeners’ dilemmas. Learn about ‘mattering’ & how it could be affecting your approach to relationships, how to move on from an affair, the six word question to ask yourself in any dilemma & what to do if your grown up kids shut you out


Plus: the card game that has intrigued Lorraine & up-your-bum shorts at the gym strike again


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0:00.0

Morning, my little co-host, you're looking a little flushed, a little stress, what's occurring here today.

0:17.0

Well, I have to sort of dashed back from the gym. I got asked to do a sort of last minute Pilates teaching class.

0:23.1

But I was doing a little bit of stretching beforehand.

0:26.8

And I was on these fixed mats.

0:28.8

You know, you have to do the gym.

0:30.4

And this young girl, you know how we had a little chat about your shorts that you wear in the gym?

0:35.1

And we were talking about the, well, at least they're not the um grippy up your bum

0:39.9

this girl young girl lovely young girl came onto the one beside me and started doing all sorts of

0:48.1

legs akimbo movements in a pair of those about a foot from my face.

0:57.9

I can't quite a right old tis as you can imagine.

1:01.4

It's stressful, isn't it, seeing all that close up?

1:04.6

And there were no other mats and I just thought, oh God, and I just, do I ignore it?

1:08.9

Anyway, I just off I went.

1:12.8

It's a generational thing.

1:13.2

It is. Those lovely young people have no clue.

1:15.6

Let them do their lovely thing.

1:18.4

Yes.

1:18.6

With their lovely bottoms, yes.

1:20.7

Keep all our neuroses to ourselves, shall we?

1:24.1

Exactly.

1:25.2

Now, I thought we should start today's episode with a little chat because you dropped something

1:31.4

in a couple of weeks ago that I hadn't heard about now my pint-sized colleague well we're the same

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