Midlife dating: Tamzin Outhwaite on why it’s no longer about finding ‘The One’
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Trish and Lorraine team up with actress Tamzin Outhwaite to discover what it’s really like dating a (20 years!) younger man when you’re hitting perimenopause, and why she’s finding midlife a time of great freedom.
Plus: Silly billy teens and the illogical things they get up to, teeth whitening tried and tested, and why we will always love Kate Bush …
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| 0:00.0 | Something spooky is going on. We've both turned up to record this podcast wearing red blouses. How did that happen? |
| 0:07.3 | It's a bit odd, isn't it? I've got red lipstick on as well. It's like we've got a midlife uniform. |
| 0:12.1 | Do you think we're saying something? |
| 0:13.8 | Or is the moon in retrograde? |
| 0:15.1 | Or something, we're in sync with each other |
| 0:19.7 | across the moon's airwaves? |
| 0:22.4 | That is the power of very angry midlife women. They can reach each other. Anyway, you look lovely. Oh, and so do you. Snap. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello. Welcome to postcards from Midlife. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Trish Helpin. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Trish Helpin and I'm Lorraine Candy and we're on a mission to tackle all the big and small issues that affect women at this stage of our life. |
| 0:49.4 | From insomnia to mind and body wellness, HRT to sex drive, careers and relationships, and as always the |
| 0:55.9 | challenges and joys of parenting teens. |
| 0:58.5 | In today's episode we're going to be talking to actress Tamzin Althwaite about finding love with a younger man when she least expected |
| 1:05.1 | it and the midlife comedy that is finally showing the world what it's really like to be a |
| 1:09.4 | pereminopausal woman. Plus we'll be looking into why teens and basic logic just don't seem to go |
| 1:14.6 | hand in hand as well as some trying, some testing and some nostalgia noodling. |
| 1:27.0 | So I need to talk about some things I need to talk about the dog. Get it off your chest get it off your chest. Oh what's pixel been up to you now? |
| 1:31.0 | Welsh terrier very yappy, really antisocial. We think we're going to get, we have to get a behavioral |
| 1:38.8 | pet therapist in to deal with her. Oh, goodness. Yeah, she's just she's so yappy I think one of the |
| 1:44.6 | neighbors might shoot her at some point and our lovely lady next door who quietly |
| 1:50.8 | sits in the garden having a cigarette at the end of the day which annoys |
| 1:54.8 | pixel for some reason and the dog has tried to burrow through to give her a right |
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