5 Ways To Make Your Long-Distance Relationship Work At Any Age
You might have heard the old saying: "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." Actually, being miles apart can often test the strength of a relationship…
Why Galentine’s Day Is A Chance To Reflect On Adult Friendship
Whether you've been friends since college or you've just met recently, in the middle of your journey, adult friendship isn’t necessarily about logging a certain…
How To Heal Your Broken Heart When Over 50
Everyone has experienced a breakup in life. It hurts, it sucks, it makes you feel horrible. But for people in their 50s or beyond, breakups…
Why Being Single At 50 Is The New Normal
Either through choice or circumstance, many of us at 50 are alone. But that doesn't mean we feel lonely. Despite what dating companies would have…
6 Strategies For Handling Difficult Teen Agers
Raising teen agers can be both exhilarating and exhausting. There is such a dichotomy between what they think they know and their actual level of…
On Dealing With Empty Nest Syndrome
As the new higher education academic year starts many parents will understandably have mixed feelings about their child leaving home to embark on their new…
Moving On As a Widow. A Conversation With Author Diane Papalia Zappa
How does love endure the test of time and the challenges of separation? The death of a spouse is never easy. It can be a…
The Five Love Languages
Nowadays relationships seem quite challenging and difficult to maintain. Too often we take things for granted and even though we do care for our partner…
Getting Remarried? How To Deal With Fears And Enjoy Your Second Chapter
So, you’re thinking about getting remarried? Consider the words of the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde: “Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.…
5 Effective Ways To Be A Positive Role Model For Your Kids
As the world continues to navigate through COVID, midlife parents are looking for more productive ways to handle everyday life. There’s no road map or…
Dating With Kids: How To Introduce Your New Partner To Them
Dating in midlife can come with challenges. When and how to introduce a partner you are seeing to your children can be one of them.…
The 7 Female Archetypes
What does it mean to be a woman? These days femininity is incredibly layered and complex. However, whether conscious or not, we can still relate…
Infidelity: 4 Reasons Women Over 50 Cheat
From a distance, they seemed happy enough, or at least content. Like Billie in the recent Netflix TV series "Sex/Life", they were doing the family…
Talking To Your Adult Children About Sex
When we become parents, we sign up for a host of joys and challenges, perhaps none more uncomfortable than the nerve-wracking “Talk” with our children…
Being Sexy In Your 50s: How To Seduce with Confidence
One of the greatest things about getting older is that you know yourself and what works for you and that's hot. Sure, physical beauty is…
Top 5 Dating Apps For Women over 50
If you're dating in your 50s, you know that it can be complicated. Sometimes, you might feel like you've been out of the game for too long to…
Tying The Knot At 50? Why Micro Weddings Are The Way Forward
The best part of marriage after 50 is that you don’t have to listen to anybody. You aren’t obligated to make choices based on your…
5 Effective Ways To Make Difficult Conversations Easier
“I never know how to start.” This is a common complaint when it comes to facing difficult conversations, one I hear often from private clients…
Financial Abuse: Do You Know The Signs?
There are several questions that can keep women awake at night and some of these may result in nightmares. Whether they are fully aware of…
Divorce After 50: How I Moved On With My Life
My marriage of nearly 25 years was over. I was devastated and wanted to stay in bed with pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream,…