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

Katrina Robinson • 6 March 2026

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

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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.

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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


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🎬 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.



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📅 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.




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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’
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