Tag: relationship
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Why Are Men So Obsessed With Sport?
Photo by Morgan David de Lossy on Unsplash The old man is that breed of men that needs to hit a ball at least once a day. He delights in telling anyone who can listen to him (without falling asleep) about his childhood spent in the family garage, throwing ball after ball against its back wall. And while…
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How Do You Keep Your Relationship Alive?
Texting… (Photo credit: j0sh (www.pixael.com)) It was our 21-year anniversary last week. We didn’t forget the date exactly but the old man was away at some conference pretending to be a very important international executive while I was working my butt off from Dysfunctionality House. So aside from a couple of pathetically grovelling texts to…
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Middle-Aged Drinking And Your Relationship With Alcohol
Tetra Pak® – Couple on beach with Tetra Classic® packages, 1960s (Photo credit: Tetra Pak) I think I AM probably one of those happy people in denial about their drinking. The last time I went for a medical and was asked about how many units I consumed on average in a week and answered ‘thirteen’,…
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Middle Aged Love On Valentines Day
A stencil painted on Valentines day depicting “First love” (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Obviously, I didn’t mean to call him a ‘tosser’ by 8am on Valentines Day, but he knows I’m not good in the morning and frankly, he was being one. The greatest thing about being middle-aged and married for what can sometimes feel like…
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Teenage Relationships and Emotions
NC* is finally ‘seeing’ someone. Relationships have always been complex for NC. You see she analyses every step of the dating process and usually comes to the conclusion that it’s not worth the effort. In reality, relationships don’t involve cute little tweeting blue birds, hyperactive mice, pink ribbons and hearts, and for NC they are…
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Middle-Aged Couple Trash Top Hotel
To Mr Bates, Manager of Wrinkly Lodge. Dear Mr Bates, Letter of Apology I am writing to thank you for your letter which I received this week. I would like to reiterate in our defence of your accusations that our celebratory, (I believe you described it in your letter as ‘immature’), behaviour in your hotel last weekend…
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How To Improve Your Sex Life With A Bicycle
The old man is onto his next new sports craze. Apparently swimming made his skin dry and boxing was a bit frightening, so his latest venture into the world of extreme sports, (in his perpetual attempt to lose weight get fit), is cycling. Dunkelblaue Radlerhose (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Don’t get me wrong, I’m not moaning.…
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How To Celebrate Your 20th Wedding Anniversary
Will and Kate may just have celebrated their first wedding anniversary, but more excitingly we too have a major wedding anniversary looming. One that could test the very foundations of our marriage, as inevitably we share very different views about how best to celebrate it. It’s not that I’m worried about the old man remembering the…
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17 Parenting Mistakes No Mother Should Have To Admit To Her Daughter
Quechan Indians, Mother & Daughter (Photo credit: Wikipedia) My daughter turned eighteen not so long ago. It was a seminal moment. I did mean to celebrate the event in my blog, but to be honest I was too busy worrying about the more serious implications; the bigger picture of how old her birthday made me.…
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Marriage And The Secret To A Good Rake
English: A pink metal leaf rake; apparently a smaller variant of this classic gardening hand tool, commonly used for raking between plants (or by children as a toy rake) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) ‘I’ve been raking all my life,’ was the old man’s pathetic justification as we fought physically, tooth and nail, over the garden rake…
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