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Keen but Clueless: What Men Really Need to Know About Their Partner's Menopause
Most men whose partners are going through menopause describe the same experience: keen and caring, but clueless and helpless. Thea O’Connor has spent years interviewing men about exactly this — and delivers the only workshops in Australia specifically designed to help men understand what’s happening and what to do about it.
In this episode she covers the basics most men have never been given, why a man’s attitude scientifically affects how severe his partner’s symptoms are, and what Orca whales have to do with any of it.
The Most Important Relationship You're Ignoring: Kerri Sackville on Learning to Be Alone
Most men who find themselves single in midlife do the same thing. They start dating too soon, from a position of loneliness rather than strength, and they have no idea that’s what they’re doing.
Kerri Sackville knows this because she spent eight and a half years on the midlife dating scene after a 17-year marriage ended, wrote a book about what she found, and then wrote another book about the thing that turned out to matter more than any of it: learning to be alone.
Nobody Died. Let's Get Pizza: Aneace Haddad on Joyful Rejuvenation After 50
The language most men use for midlife is wrong. Crisis. Decline. Slow fade. The vocabulary is built around loss — of sharpness, of drive, of relevance. What if that vocabulary is keeping men from seeing what’s actually happening?
Aneace Haddad sold his payment software company across 30 countries at 47, moved from France to Singapore, and started over. Not because he had to. Because something in him had shifted and the old map no longer made sense. What followed was a decade of working out what second adulthood actually is — not what culture says it should be, but what it biologically, neurologically, and psychologically becomes when you stop fighting it.
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