Midlife Women Conversations with Jean Macdonald
How to Manage Family and Friends for a Peaceful Life
In this Friends and Family episode, I did a short presentation and interviewed Melanie Hill who specialises in this area. We discuss how family and friends can sometimes become barriers that hold midlife women back.
Relationships which were close and loving in childhood can turn sour and bitter in later life. We may keep up appearances but underneath there is an uncomfortable tension.
The same applies to friendships made in childhood. The friend expects you to stay like them in adulthood and fears your desire to change and get ahead. These can then turn into ‘toxic friendships’ and do no good to either side.
These are both made worse by the misuse of the word ‘love’ to create emotional blackmail.
Love
Jean
The Midlife Midwife
Are you ready to unleash your full potential and overcome the obstacles that hold you back?
Visit the Midlife Butterfly Club for valuable videos, articles, and podcasts to inform, guide and inspire you if you are a woman in middle life. You can explore our online magazine at no cost.
https://midlifebutterflyclub.org/magazine
In this Friends and Family episode, I did a short presentation and interviewed Melanie Hill who specialises in this area. We discuss how family and friends can sometimes become barriers that hold midlife women back.
Relationships which were close and loving in childhood can turn sour and bitter in later life. We may keep up appearances but underneath there is an uncomfortable tension.
The same applies to friendships made in childhood. The friend expects you to stay like them in adulthood and fears your desire to change and get ahead. These can then turn into ‘toxic friendships’ and do no good to either side.
These are both made worse by the misuse of the word ‘love’ to create emotional blackmail.
Love
Jean
The Midlife Midwife
Are you ready to unleash your full potential and overcome the obstacles that hold you back?
Visit the Midlife Butterfly Club for valuable videos, articles, and podcasts to inform, guide and inspire you if you are a woman in middle life. You can explore our online magazine at no cost.
https://midlifebutterflyclub.org/magazine