Some of you ladies might harbour a fantasy of a lost friend or sweetheart from years ago that you may one day meet up with and sail off into the sunset to a blissful land of love. It’s an unfair fact of life that reality hardly ever lives up to the fantasy and if it […]
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By the time you are in your 40s, as I am, you have known many women who have had babies. I once told a woman who had children that I never planned to have kids and she said I should get to it quickly or I would kick myself later in life. I smiled and […]
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Well would you Adam ‘n Eve it! Just when you think things can’t get any more uncertain than they are right now, I go and complicate things further over an innocent little dinner beneath some dreaming spires… I’ve been continuing to stall Gina about heading Essexwards. It’s amazing how easy it is to use the […]
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Although women the world over have been doing it for centuries, we can’t really blame a guy for being a guy. And this is especially true now that we know that the male and female brains have some profound differences. Our brains are mostly alike. We are the same species, after all. But the differences […]
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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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