P2YL | 55. MORE inspiration for Part 2 Of Your (Love?) Life

Why you need to date differently second time round PLUS The books and films that help you do it

With this post I’m continuing the series I started in P2YL | 52. How to find Part 2 (Love?) Life inspiration.

Use it as a handy guide to finding ideas on my website for aspects of your own Part 2.

Here I’m focusing on two specific elements and three ideas for each one:

• Entertainment and infotainment to cheer you along the way ➡️  Films and books that bring balm

• Dating in midlife/post-divorce: why it's different & how to make it work for you ➡️ Midlife dating
  

🎬 Films and books to bring you balm

Fed up of improbable rom-coms and saccharine-sweet stories that induce cavities rather than bringing a spring to your soul?

Here are three posts on films and books that made me realise:

• I could take action to live fully and fascinatingly while single;

• I could act intentionally if I wanted to find love and marriage again.



😌 'Live Alone and Like It', by Marjorie Hillis

🎞️ Five favourite films for a fallow season

📕💕My 8 favourite dating books

📅 Midlife dating

🫦‘Your romantic life isn’t over just because of what your husband did.’

💐 ‘You need to learn to flirt again.’

These are two things that were said to me by my wonderfully supportive and encouraging female GP as I took my first nervous steps back into the world of girl meets boy after 14 years as a smug married.



🤷‍♀️ 'Where do I meet eligible men that I like?'

2️⃣ Things I do differently second time round

5️⃣ The 5 new ways to date with a P2YL mindset

I’ll be sharing more topics next time and over the coming weeks including:

• Marriage — infidelity — divorce

• Remarriage

• Post-divorce finances: how to be ‘Poor but posh’