The emotional labour of parenting
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
How do you cope as a parent when two pairs of hands become one? Lorraine and Trish talk to the television and radio presenter Beverley Turner about her experience of parenting after divorce, from the everyday practicalities to the sometimes overwhelming emotional labour. Plus: midlife muffin top (weight gain and appetite during menopause), Top of the Pops and piercings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! I'm Trish Halpin and I'm Lorraine Candy. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to Postcards from Midlife. |
| 0:08.0 | The show where we help you through the Midlife, the menopause, motherhood and everything in between. |
| 0:13.3 | Trish, what's been happening to you this week? |
| 0:20.8 | Well I always have a tube story don't |
| 0:22.6 | I have some of it seems to be traveling to a lot of places. Well I'm going a lot of places |
| 0:26.6 | and I sort of think it's a really good place for sort of observing life |
| 0:30.6 | and finding out interesting things about people and this week I had a little light bulb |
| 0:35.8 | episode where I thought oh my god thank God being the age we are we don't have to do these |
| 0:41.4 | like modern hendos where you all have to kind of pack off and travel abroad. |
| 0:45.8 | I was listening to these two lovely young ladies and one of them she was obviously the bride and she was |
| 0:51.1 | regailing a list of instructions. The lovely bride. She wanted a villa in the |
| 0:55.2 | south of France. She wants any feathers or pheenices anywhere near the vicinity. Just lots of lovely, |
| 1:01.3 | lovely rosé wine. |
| 1:03.0 | Whispering angel. |
| 1:05.0 | Very likely. |
| 1:06.0 | So I was thinking goodness, what's wrong with just a kind of boosy old night at a nightclub? |
| 1:11.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:12.0 | You know what changed it don't you what was |
| 1:14.0 | it Instagram oh right so booze the old you and me dancing to Abba till two o'clock in the |
| 1:20.6 | morning is not Instagramable at all. |
| 1:24.0 | But nice filler in the South of France. |
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