Hi, Laura here.

This week, I'm pleased to bring you an episode from our friends at North Carolina Public Radio and Embodied.

It's called Life After a Grey Divorce, and I'm one of two guests talking all about it with embodied host Anita Rao.

So you may already know that my show, Dating While

Gray, is for anyone interested in romantic love in the later years of life. Does it matter

if you're widowed, divorced, or never married? But I started this show because of my so-called

gray divorce. You'll hear details and get insights on this embodied episode.

I hope you find it enlightening and interesting.

And if you have any questions or comments, I'd love to hear from you.

Email Laura at datingwallgrade.com and thank you.

I don't know if anyone ever said it to me explicitly, but the narrative I inherited about divorce was that you just don't do it. In my parents' generation especially, divorce was pretty

much a dirty word. But that is changing. In the past 30-some years, the divorce rate for Americans over 55

has doubled, and for couples over 65, even tripled. The trend also has a name, Gray

divorce.

I divorced after a 40-year marriage, and because of my strong circle of friends and family,

my circle stayed pretty much the same. My family was very supportive. In fact, my kids said,

what took you so long, mom? So I had support, and yet it was very difficult at times like any life-changing decision can be.

I went through a great divorce about 10 years ago, except at the time I was not even aware of the term.

My social and family life, of course it changed. I think the hardest part was being at family events and my children weren't there.

They might have been with their dad.

My kids were teens and adults, but it was the almost being an empty nester and now you're also being single again.

That's Nanette Murphy and Linda Lingo.

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