Laura Friedman Williams on sex and the newly single 40something mum

The Shift with Sam Baker

Sam Baker Ltd

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How does it feel to have your life turned upside down in your mid 40s? That’s what happened to Laura Friedman Williams when, after 27 years with her husband, she discovered he was having an affair. It was something Laura had always thought they’d somehow get past but, confronted with the reality that he was in love with someone else, she knew this was it. They. Their marriage. Life as she knew it, was gone. Faced with the choice of going through the motions or getting back in the saddle, Laura realised it was time to move on. Three years on, her funny, frank, refreshingly rude account of that sexual reinvention, Available, will bring hope to anyone who feels like they’ve just been tossed on the scrap heap. And, crucially, for all those women who are wondering what might happen if they took that leap. (I know you’re out there…!) Laura talks laughing through the pain, finding your identity when you’ve lost yourself in motherhood and marriage, the joy of first time sex second time around, the politics of pubic waxing and learning to love her body at 50. You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including Available by Laura Friedman-Williams and the book that accompanies this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too by me! The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.5	We're having a baby.
0:05.5	We're having a baby.
0:07.2	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.4	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.4	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.6	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.6	I think of it like a Tamagocchi.
0:17.8	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby. Raising Chelsea, a Hulu
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0:30.1	This is a paid message from GoFundMe. My name's Ashley Kane. I'm the daddy of a little girl in heaven
0:37.1	and a father to two boys on
0:39.1	there. I've got an incredible relationship with GoFundMe, both personally and via our daughter's
0:45.2	foundation, the Azalea Foundation. GoFundMe has allowed me, the foundation, and thousands of people
0:52.3	out there to give hope to others in need. You'd actually be surprised how many people out there to give hope to others in need.
0:55.5	You'd actually be surprised how many people out there are willing to show love and support
1:00.9	you in your time of need. My advice for anyone that needs to stop a GoFundMe would be do it.
1:08.7	You don't need to feel shame. You don't need to feel shame. You don't need to feel guilt.
1:11.3	You don't need to feel embarrassment.
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1:16.8	Start your GoFundMe today at gofundme.com.
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