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Families, Grief, death & loss, Health and Wellness, Relationships, Spirituality

Matters of Life & Love – Families – July 2024 Reader Question: “I have been deeply unhappy in my marriage for a long while and it has recently built up inside me so big that I can’t hold it in anymore. I have weighed up a list of pros [...]

Sarah Tolmie2024-07-03T19:12:45+10:00July 3rd, 2024|

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Families, Health and Wellness, Relationships, Success

Matters of Life & Love – Families – June Reader Question: “I don’t know anyone in our family, friend and community groups who are not experiencing real effects of the ‘cost of living’ crisis. Things are not at crisis point for our family, but life is getting very tight. [...]

Sarah Tolmie2024-07-03T19:14:05+10:00July 3rd, 2024|

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Families, Grief, death & loss, Health and Wellness, Relationships, Youthful ageing

Matters of Life & Love – 55+ - May 2024 Reader Question: “I am a few years into adjusting to widowhood. It has been hard but I have been doing the work and going ok. I am now planning an earlier than expected retirement because I have the means. [...]

Sarah Tolmie2024-07-03T16:57:41+10:00July 3rd, 2024|

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Matters of Life & Love – Families – May The “Motherload Challenge” Reader Question: “My mothers group friends all talk about the ‘motherload’. Most of us are not first-time mums, we have a few kids each, and manage schools, daycare and all the childcare and house business. We can [...]

Sarah Tolmie2024-07-03T19:20:38+10:00July 3rd, 2024|

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Matters of Life & Love – On the Coast - Families –June 2023 Reader Question: “My wife is imminently due with baby number two. I love being a father. I am so excited. I love seeing my wife as a mother. She is incredible. I just miss her, and [...]

Sarah Tolmie2024-07-03T16:36:13+10:00July 3rd, 2024|

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Matters of Life & Love – On The Coast 55+ - Dec2022_Jan2023 Reader Question: “Our family is getting very large and multigenerational. We are now great-parents. We’ve been buying Christmas presents for many many many years now. Not only is it getting expensive, we also don’t want to stress [...]

Sarah Tolmie2022-10-31T17:09:02+11:00October 31st, 2022|

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Matters of Life & Love – On The Coast 55+ - SEPT 2022 Maskot/Getty Images Reader Question: “Our adult children (they are in their mid-20’s) still live with us. We are entering our 60’s and looking to downsize and change things up and maybe travel. When we [...]

Sarah Tolmie2022-10-31T17:09:58+11:00October 31st, 2022|

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Matters of Life & Love – On The Coast 55+ - July 2022 Reader Question: “I think my husband is having a classic ‘mid-life crisis’. He is unhappy in his work. Looking at distractions. Taking up cycling even! I am just waiting for the sports car. I feel distant [...]

Sarah Tolmie2022-10-31T16:58:30+11:00October 31st, 2022|

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Matters of Life & Love – On The Coast 55+ - May 2022 Reader Question: “In a couple of months’ time I will be retiring from working life. Other than a holiday to mark the transition the month after I finish, and later plans for some travel, I am [...]

Sarah Tolmie2022-10-31T17:10:52+11:00October 31st, 2022|

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Families, Health and Wellness, Success

Matters of Life & Love – Families – May/June 2022 Reader Question: “My kids play soccer throughout Winter. I really do not enjoy going. It is early, cold, often wet and I get very triggered by the loud shouty, almost bully parents on the sidelines. How do I endure? [...]

Sarah Tolmie2022-10-31T16:51:08+11:00October 31st, 2022|