Welcome to Middle Age Dish, where we dish on all the weird, wonderful, frustrating, and hilarious parts of middle age. From changing bodies and grown kids to relationships, careers, reinvention, and wondering why you walked into a room in the first place, nothing is off the table. Life after 45 may not come with an instruction manual, but it definitely comes with stories.
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Sex After 23 Years of Marriage + Perimenopause
There are things nobody tells you about sex after 23 years of marriage, and there are things nobody tells you about sex during perimenopause. Combine the two, and sex becomes… Read more ⇢
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The Secret to 23 Years of Marriage? We laugh. A Lot!
I’ve been married for 23 years. Correction, there was a brief interruption in service. We actually got divorced once for about a year. And then we got remarried. (Thank you… Read more ⇢
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I Write, Therefore I Overthink!
I write and from what I’m told, that makes me a writer. I’m still not entirely comfortable saying that. Because somewhere in my head, a real writer sits down at… Read more ⇢
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Hormone Induced Irrational Behavior: Work Edition
Well, it happened… my first full-blown, hormone-fueled emotional breakdown. At work. It was my first day back after a long weekend, which is already dangerous territory because three days off… Read more ⇢
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I Have Decided Perimenopause Is Just a Dress Rehearsal for Being Reincarnated as a Man
I have a theory: Perimenopause isn’t preparing us for menopause. It’s preparing us to be reincarnated as men. Hear me out. I’m 46, and lately my body has been making… Read more ⇢
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My Car Has Become My Happy Place!
I have a confession to make. Sometimes I leave my apartment, walk out to my car, get in… and go absolutely nowhere. I don’t need groceries. I’m not running an… Read more ⇢
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I Want Friends, I Just Don’t Want to Go Anywhere!
Let’s talk about how ridiculously hard it is to make friends as an adult. When you’re a kid, it’s easy. You: “Do you like horses?” Them: “Yeah! I like horses!”… Read more ⇢
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I Still Haven’t Figured Out What I Want to Be When I Grow UP.
There is something particularly terrifying about looking at the career you’ve spent decades building and suddenly thinking: I REALLY don’t want to do this anymore. But, that’s pretty much where… Read more ⇢
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Perimenopause: When There Is No Meno To Pause
Guess what I found out today!? I’m going through perimenopause. This came as somewhat of a surprise because I had a partial hysterectomy when I was 33, which meant there… Read more ⇢
