Category: Marriage
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The Eternal Quest For Love
‘Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for’. Bob Marley It would make life so much easier if we, like the simplest animal forms with little intelligence, only had to mate for the sake of procreation, and feelings couldn’t complicate the process. Wouldn’t it? Wary applause…
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Insomnia In Middle Age: Why Old People Have Separate Rooms
The old man predicts that we will be in separate rooms soon because of my snoring, but it’s far more likely to be due to our mismatched sleep patterns. One of the major and most debilitating symptoms of Menopause is insomnia. I REALLY need my sleep – ideally a solid twelve hours to feel human…
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Pippa Middleton Doesn’t Need A Man To Define Her
I’m so relieved that Pippa Middleton finally found a gorgeous, generous man who took pity on her, pulled her off the shelf and played with her like some old raggedy doll from Play School. She has finally been defined as a person. And she’s in her thirties, after all, so phew! how lucky was she…
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When Your Child Has Mental Health Issues and You Want To Use The Get Out Of Jail Card
I’m tired of this particular journey. Self-absorbed I know, but there I said it. No “parent of the year” award for me; I’m the parent who loves her child but is tired of this arduous journey at his side. I’m tired of not sleeping, the stomach pains, the disagreements about the best way to raise…
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The Secret To Long Relationships
I was bemoaning the fact that breakfast is my most disappointing meal of the day with the old man the other day, and he responded with ‘that’s because it’s the only meal you can’t justify having wine with.’ ‘True dat,’ as our son Kurt would say. Equally, our marriage might be more pleasurable if I…
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The Fall From Domestic Goddess To Domestic Grossness That Can Happen In Middle Age
Do you ever get those moments when your own domestic grubbiness grosses you the fuck out? I had one of those last night when I used the grill in the oven for the first time in months and there was that much smoke, I’m surprised the fire brigade didn’t turn up. It was a blinding…
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There Are Two Sides To Every Victim Story
What a sad week it has been in the news; a week when the adage that there are two sides to every story has never rung more true. There’s not a lot I can add to the extensive debate surrounding the Depp/Heard story, but when I began this post, soon after the news first hit…
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The Male Short Term Memory Issue: A Valid Reason To Nag
You’ll be aware by now that I’m a fervent believer in gender equality and the old man and I have heated discussions on the subject most weeks over a bottle or three of wine. And the one area in our discussions where he really gets to me is when he argues that because women don’t…
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The Concept Of ‘Home’, And Moving On Versus Staying Put
I popped back to the suburb we used to live in up until a couple of years ago, last Monday, to catch up with a friend. Whenever I go back there, (and it’s often, as most of our close friends still live there), I experience those same feelings of self-doubt that I feel when I…
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Dysfunctional Versus Flat-line Relationships
I’ve just completed the whirlwind first season of ‘Love’ on Netflix, written by Judd Apatow who produces ‘Girls’ with Lena Durham. I am drawn to the modern genre of television shows that depict the full range of dysfunctional relationships experienced by ‘normal’, flawed characters that we can all identify with. Unlike reality television contestants, whose…
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Marriage And The Need To Shop Underground
One of the unfortunate byproducts of being married to an accountant is that sometimes you have to resort to going underground to shop or shopping with cash, because they’re so fucking tight. At the moment, I spend many of my nights hidden under the covers with my torch light as I research the perfect set of dining…
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