Family
Family issues for women in midlife are distinct from the earlier challenges. Parenting teens brings a host of concerns, ranging from wrangling your almost-adult into doing chores to more serious problems like eating disorders and self-harming. And we often care for older family members as well. You’ll find stories and advice here that relate to the real problems we experience now.
Eleanor's Letter: Alcohol & other things we inherit as mothers and daughters
What legacies do we get from our mothers ... and what do we hand down to daughters? Eleanor Mills spoke with a mother-daughter duo who have both struggled with alcohol. They share their emotional 'pack ice' and the family's difficult legacy
What to do on your sad-anniversaries
How to weather with our sad-anniversaries – anniversaries of our loved ones' deaths? Eleanor Mills contemplates the day
How to cope with empty nest syndrome
It can be difficult when your child leaves home. Here's how to cope with empty nest syndrome ... and make the most of what comes next.
Coping as an empty nester: 'Stuck with one foot in the past and one in the future'
Being an empty nester means feeling discombobulated, stuck with one foot in the past and one in the future. Eleanor Mills is trying to enjoy both
I left my husband for a woman
Liz Moseley had a creeping sense that something was wrong in her carefully constructed middle class life. And then she met Suzie on a Woman's March...
Coming out as gay: Married, an affair and then
VG Lee married her first boyfriend at 18, and though she could sense something was wrong, it wouldn't be until nearly 20 years after that that she could explore her true identity.
How to survive Mother's Day if you are childless not by choice
Advice on how to get through that most triggering of days from women in the Childless Not By Choice (CNBC) community
How to manage Christmas with a loved one with dementia
The busyness and general chaos of Christmas is wonderful, but can also be overwhelming for all of us. That’s even more true for people living with dementia. Here’s how to help them make it as enjoyable and safe as possible.
Helen Paris and Leslie Hill
“We have experienced being looked through, looked past or hidden away entirely”
As a young lesbian woman in the eighties, there were no older women couples Helen Paris could look as role models. Now married to her partner of 27 years, she questions whether lesbian couples are any more visible and recognised all these decades later.
Nesting co-parenting after divorce
When Beth Behrendt and her husband divorced they never imagined the temporary parenting arrangement they came to for their sons would be so beneficial to them all they’d still be doing it nearly a decade later.
“It has taken me my whole adult life to understand that the only place you can be truly safe is within yourself”
She’s the co-founder of a beauty brand created to lift your energy and mood but her start in life couldn’t have been more difficult. Tracey Woodward shares her astonishing story and the principles she’s learned to live by that have made her, against all the odds, the successful business woman and mother she is today.
