I’ve just hit fifty and am divorced, happy and single, while most of my friends are still married, more or less unhappily. I love sex and have recently made several attempts to have relationships with men to enjoy it without too many complications. Interestingly, it turns out to be much harder than I anticipated, judging […]
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it has a very short shelf life and goes off once you expose it to the light! If you ask a long-married couple whether they’re happy or not, they may look at you rather quizzically as if they haven’t quite understood the question. It’s probably not something they care to ponder over, for if they […]
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Here’s another thing about lawyers. They’re very difficult to shake once they get their teeth into a case. Mind you, in this instance it’s not necessarily just my case that this particular lawyer is getting her teeth into, but you get my drift… Don’t get me wrong. I/we’re not ‘involved’. But this is a little […]
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Drinking alcohol could help women stay slim. Women who drink a couple of glasses of red wine, beer or spirits a day are better at keeping the pounds off than women who do not drink at all, according to a study published Monday. Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston asked more than 19,000, […]
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TBW founder, Julia Macmillan was on The Culture Show last night on BBC2 talking about the older woman/ younger man dynamic. For anyone who’d like to watch it, it’ll be up on BBC iPlayer for 6 days – it’s about 26 mins into the show. We’d love your feedback.  
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A long time ago, when I started appreciating the benefits of being with a younger man, a very interesting thing was said to me. “I’ve never been out with a woman where I’ve felt invisible”. This intrigued me and on further investigation he revealed what had caused that feeling. It was to do with the […]
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To celebrate the republication of of the 60s cult classic In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey on March 4th (and you can see Julia, TBW founder talking about the older woman/yonger man dynamic on The Culture Show on BBC2 that night) we are holding a competition. The competition is to see who can […]
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These are all reasons we’ve heard from our female members why they don’t want to date an older man. Maybe you can add some more! 1/ “I was dating this older man who I was getting on really well with, we were going to see films, out to dinner etc and had quite a lot […]
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So when did Valentine’s Day turn into such a big deal? Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve been bombarded like me by spam email soliciting for various gifts of flowers, candies, cards, chocolates, clothes, hats, and stuffed animals. Commercials everywhere are constantly warning us not to forget our loved ones. Whatever happened to […]
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