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Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Lorraine & Trish meet relationship therapist & author Dr Kalanit Ben-Ari, who has spent 20 years helping thousands of couples navigate the emotional rollercoaster of sustaining a happy, loving and fulfilling life together. What to do if you suspect your partner’s having an emotional affair, questions to ask if they no longer seem like the person you married, & the five words that will get your communication right back on track.
Plus: ‘What are you going to do about your wrinkles?’ How Lorraine responded when asked that very question!!
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, my perky pal. |
| 0:11.6 | Now, I want to launch straight into today's episode with something you told me the other day, Lorraine, which, I mean, it did make me burst out laughing. |
| 0:20.1 | But it also got us talking again about that midlife perennial topic, |
| 0:25.4 | aging, identity, and how we feel about our looks as we notch up the ears. |
| 0:30.3 | So Lorraine, would you do the honours and share what happened to you |
| 0:33.0 | when you were doing good deeds, no less, when you were volunteering in a secondary school. |
| 0:38.0 | Yes, I was just pottering along, helping a lovely young pupil with some homework. |
| 0:43.1 | And she looked at me, Trish. |
| 0:44.9 | And this is why I told you about it. |
| 0:47.8 | And she said, oh, what are you going to do about all those lines? |
| 0:51.4 | I pointed to my forehead. |
| 0:54.1 | Very sweet. |
| 0:55.2 | And I said, oh, well, they, they, they, um, they, um, they, um, they, um, they, um, |
| 0:58.8 | I'm not worried about my lines. |
| 1:00.5 | And then we had quite an interesting chat about why the need kind of from that |
| 1:06.5 | younger generation, younger teens to have everything flat. |
| 1:10.3 | Um, yeah. And I was talking to my 14 year old about it. |
| 1:13.6 | And she was saying there's this thing called glass skin on TikTok, which is a trend. |
| 1:18.5 | But I do slightly worry about younger women not owning the lines and being absolutely terrified. |
| 1:24.7 | You know, kind of under 30, there's been a huge increase, according to the BBC when I was doing a bit of research on under 30s having facelifts. Yeah....verified, you know, kind of under 30, there's been a huge increase, according to the BBC, when I was doing a bit of research, on under 30s having facelifts because they want this smooth, flat skin. And it's just really interesting. And I was interested in her view that it wasn't right to have those lines or that I could do something about them, maybe. That she maybe she was just saying you could do something if you wanted well it's trying to be helpful |
| 1:48.0 | in a very helpful yeah but it did make me laugh and then every time we meet up now I do say what are you |
| 1:55.4 | can do about those lines what are you going to do about those lines did make me laugh but yeah no I think |
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