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A CONSTELLATED RELATIONSHIP – MARRYING IN YOUR SEVENTIES

29/9/2018

Recently my husband and I were invited to a wedding where the bride and groom were in their seventies. This is not unusual in itself but what fascinated me was why they had decided to marry after being together for more then twenty-one years. As we chatted about how they had come to this decision, their story became even more fascinating, as you will discover as you read the interview with Marie and Neive, starting with how they met.

EMAILS BETWEEN FRIENDS

30/8/2018

This is an email thread that naturally developed over several days amongst a few members of the Joy of Ageing website team. It shows how true friends can express to each other how they feel without fear of judgment or reaction and be open to another’s reflection. When we are held with such understanding we are inspired to take an honest look at our life and it is easier to let go of what is not working for us and move forward.

LETTING GO OF THE CONVENIENT COMPROMISE

29/8/2018

For twenty-six years I was in a relationship with a man – he was the ‘love of my life’ and it felt as if we would be together forever. We enjoyed being together, worked well together and our love was deepening. Then, imperceptibly, things started to change. We stopped appreciating each other so much, we let work become the priority instead of our love, and gradually our relationship got stale – the joy had slowly gone.

WISDOM UNITES US ALL – THE JOY OF FRIENDSHIPS ACROSS AGES

30/7/2018

I now live a life where I am inspired by friends of many ages – but it wasn’t always this way. I held the common belief that the older I get the more I should know. Those younger generally know less, and those older know more. Pretty straight forward and if I were to evaluate this based on life experience I could not be faulted. The younger a person was, the less ‘life experience’ they generally had.

ABOUT LOVE

27/2/2018

What is Love? This is a question that I am sure everyone has wrestled with in his or her lifetime. I have always questioned it. My mother loved me I know, but her love was very needy and thus it was smothering for me and for my two brothers. We recognised that for her, this was her expression of love, but for myself it was not what I wanted from her and it was not what I felt ‘love’ meant to me. So what did it mean?

SIMPLE YET PROFOUND

30/1/2018

Recently I have been in the process of cutting a life long energetic cord that my son and I have had between us. This happened a couple of weeks ago, and since then I have been amazed at the simple changes that have come about as a consequence.
The changes I have noticed are in the way I relate to my son and people in general.

IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO FALL IN LOVE

13/9/2017

"How did you do this?", and “How did you find such a beautiful man?”, was what many friends asked me. Honestly I wasn't busy looking for a relationship, and strange as it sounds, it just came to me. I am 61 years old and I really thought that I would never meet a man in this lifetime. I have had a few relationships in my life but they didn’t work out.

LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR

30/7/2017

Our neighbours can have a big impact in our lives. As elders, we probably have had both good and bad relationships with our neighbours, at one time or another. In my last home, I had a delightful couple on one side and very irritating neighbours on the other! With the increase of high-density housing, it’s almost understandable that we have become somewhat protective about ‘our space.’

GETTING INTIMATE IN OUR MID-LATE FIFTIES …

29/6/2017

Up until eighteen months ago I had been a woman with two marriages and two divorces and a long-term live-in relationship behind me. It had been nine years since the previous relationship and I had not begun to consider the possibility of a relationship in the future – after all I was 53 years old, too old for a new relationship? Right? I was just arriving at menopause – was there life after this?

THREE AGEING SISTERS LEARNING LOVE AND RESPECT

28/2/2017

Throughout our lives we three sisters have shared, fallen out, and come together again, and supported each other in many ways. For ten years in our mid lives we met three times a year for communal sharing between the three of us. This fell apart when we all became stressed and tired, with a lot of ill health at the same time, and all our old judgments, grudges and prejudices came out.

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A CONSTELLATED RELATIONSHIP – MARRYING IN YOUR SEVENTIES

EMAILS BETWEEN FRIENDS

LETTING GO OF THE CONVENIENT COMPROMISE

WISDOM UNITES US ALL – THE JOY OF FRIENDSHIPS ACROSS AGES

ABOUT LOVE

SIMPLE YET PROFOUND

IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO FALL IN LOVE

LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR

GETTING INTIMATE IN OUR MID-LATE FIFTIES …

THREE AGEING SISTERS LEARNING LOVE AND RESPECT

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