Dating after divorce and the truth about infidelity, with Lucy Beresford
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Newly single or faced with staying or leaving your relationship? On this episode of The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show, Liz is joined by psychotherapist Lucy Beresford to chat about dating after divorce and whether infidelity is always a dealbreaker.
Lucy reveals why we should put a more positive spin on ‘failed’ relationships, and how the five-minute rule can improve our communication skills with our partners (past and present). Liz also gets candid about her experience of marriage and divorce.
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| 0:00.8 | The fact that it ended doesn't mean that it was a failure. If you recognise that there were |
| 0:05.8 | beautiful moments of it, there were joy or companionship or travel or children, |
| 0:10.8 | and I do wonder whether that on the basis that some of us might live to 120 given modern medicine, |
| 0:16.7 | I just wonder whether that you and I will be having a podcast where we're a hundred, |
| 0:20.8 | and we'll be saying, was it a failure or was it a springboard to a better relationship next time |
| 0:27.1 | around, so how can that be a failure? Well that is the voice of Lucy Barrasford, |
| 0:34.3 | a psychotherapist, broadcaster and an award-winning writer. She has been referred to as the |
| 0:40.4 | Naughty Mary Poppins, sounds intriguing. Welcome to the Lizelle Wellbeing Show, the podcast |
| 0:46.8 | helping us all live a better second half. I'm Lizelle and I'm on a bit of a mission to find ways |
| 0:53.4 | for us all to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our wellbeing today. |
| 0:59.6 | Now to be really honest, I don't have the best track record of keeping long-term relationships |
| 1:05.1 | going, divorce twice, both times after marriages spanning 17 years or so, and so I do feel that |
| 1:13.2 | this is something of a personal as well as professional interest, and one which will no doubt |
| 1:19.0 | resonate with many of us here. You know, as I enter my own second half, I'm really keen to learn |
| 1:24.8 | what I could have managed better. Should I have left sooner, perhaps, or found more ways to salvage |
| 1:31.1 | broken relationships and made things better somehow? Questions that I'm sure prey on the minds |
| 1:36.4 | of many of us? Well, Lucy Barrasford works with a wide range of psychotherapy clients on everything |
| 1:43.2 | from betrayal and heartbreak to sex and communication in relationships. Sounds like she is exactly |
| 1:50.0 | the woman I need in my life right now to give me some pointers about dating, maybe after divorce. |
| 1:55.6 | And I'm really interested to hear her take on whether infidelity is always a deal breaker too. |
| 2:02.5 | Lucy, it's such a pleasure to meet you. Now, you refer to yourself as being, quote, |
| 2:15.9 | life curious. I love that mentality. What does that mean to you? And has your attitude and |
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