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Postcards From Midlife

Where has my libido gone?

Postcards From Midlife

Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin

Menopause, Culture, Nutrition, 579985, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Mental Health, Women, Midlife Women, Midlife, Relationships, Kids & Family, Health, Perimenopause, Lifestyle

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

If your sex drive isn’t what it used to be and the most exciting thing that’s happened in the bedroom lately is a Netflix binge, well...you’re not alone. In the first episode of Postcards from Midlife, Lorraine and Trish find out how to rediscover desire, intimacy and pleasure with Suzi Godson, The Times sex and relationships columnist, as well as how to understand and support your teens as they start to explore their own sexuality. Plus: holidaying alone, magazine memories and women they love.

 

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Disclaimer: all advice in this podcast is based on your own experiences. Please seek professional medical or expert advice if you think you have any of the conditions or issues discussed in this episode


 


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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Trish Halpin and I'm Lorraine Candy.

0:06.3

Welcome to Postcards from Mid Life.

0:08.4

The show where we help you through the Midlife, the Menopause.

0:11.8

That frighten you, Trish, the M word, the Mlife, the menopause, is that frightening attrition?

0:13.2

The M word, the M word, yeah.

0:14.8

And everything related.

0:16.4

And also mental health, growing up, getting older,

0:19.0

having a second act.

0:20.4

That's another thing I hear a lot at the moment.

0:22.4

It's all the fabulous stuff, but kind of some of the stressy stuff too.

0:25.8

So we're going to be getting to the bottom of a lot of

0:28.0

divorce, parenting hormonal teenagers, that kind of thing.

0:32.0

But we've also got some fantastic experts coming on to

0:35.0

chat about some of these things with us. And who do we have today, Lorraine?

0:39.7

Today we have Susie Godson, who I absolutely love because she's so extremely entertaining but

0:45.5

Susie is the Times Sex and Relationship Correspondent. She has a column every week. She's also written books on sex.

0:52.1

She's really good on parenting teens and she's very, very helpful and practical around the issue of sex.

0:58.0

And that's one of the things that I don't know about you, but I find myself talking about a lot with my midlife friends sex in marriage

1:05.3

sex outside of marriage friends of mine who are having all sorts of new sex after

1:09.1

divorce which is highly irritating to hear about old sex new sex yes new sex. Old sex, new sex.

1:13.0

Yes, everything to do with sex.

1:15.0

And why your whole body changes, how hormones affects your sexuality,

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