Relationships in Midlife
The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan
The Midpoint
4.3 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This is the second of our special compilation episodes this summer; perfect for you to dip in and out of on your holidays, or to accompany you on any long journeys. This week we’re focusing on a topic that comes up a lot on The Mid.Point: relationships. Be they romantic, familial, or purely platonic, they can often take on a new importance when navigating midlife.
Like everything, relationships change and evolve over time and sometimes they no longer serve us by the midpoint, hence why many people find themselves navigating the end of a significant partnership or friendship at this time of life. However, scientific research suggests that there are anti-ageing properties bound up in social interactions and a sense of community, so it’s vitally important that we keep making friendships throughout our lives. But it can be hard to put yourself out there, especially when it comes to dating. These are all aspects that our wonderful guests - Elizabeth Day, Phil Neville, Rob Rinder, Jane Fallon, Kelly Cates, Kirsty Gallacher, Kenny Logan, sobriety advocate Matt Pink, and Professor Rose Anne Kenny – all touch on in this week’s episode.
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| 0:52.5 | Hello and welcome to the midpoint. I really love recording these podcasts because I get to |
| 1:02.0 | speak to so many brilliant people who have, how can I put it politely? |
| 1:06.4 | Lived a lot of life, and they've got so much wisdom to share, so I thought this month |
| 1:10.4 | I'd go back through the archives and cherry pick some of the great conversations from past |
| 1:14.4 | series. Some you might not have heard before, and some you might like to hear again. |
| 1:19.0 | A theme that regularly pops up in our conversations is relationships, |
| 1:22.9 | be they familial, romantic, or simply friendships. Midlife can be a period of reflection, |
| 1:28.5 | sometimes revelation, and definitely change, and not all relationships can withstand that, |
| 1:33.6 | so today I have a sort of smorgasbord of chats for you on this very subject. |
| 1:38.2 | Writer and podcaster Elizabeth Day confessed to spending much of her 20s and 30s outsourcing |
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