40ish - Laughing Our Way Through Midlife, Perimenopause & Menopause19 Touko

Why Midlife Friendship Breakups Hurt So Much & The Mental Load

This week on 40ish: Nicole and Lauren find themselves nominated alongside fellow 40-something Romesh Ranganathan for a comedy award which, considering he’s an actual professional comedian and we mainly discuss pelvic floors, peri-menopause and Real Housewives, feels both surreal and deeply flattering. We were completely overwhelmed by your response to our conversation about friendship breakups and apparently being quietly phased out of a women’s friendship group in your 40s is basically the adult version of being picked last in PE, except now there are secret WhatsApp groups, girls’ trips to Thailand and emotionally devastating photos appearing on Instagram without you. Some of these listener stories are genuinely brutal.
Plus, one listener's dilemma absolutely breaks our hearts. After years of carrying the mental load for her family; the cooking, cleaning, shopping, birthday planning, emotional labour and working full-time her birthday arrives with barely any acknowledgement.
We talk about the quiet loneliness of feeling invisible in midlife, the resentment that builds when everyone takes you for granted, and why so many women end up feeling completely emotionally exhausted. If you’re enjoying the show, please share it with a friend who needs a laugh, a cry, or simply reassurance that other women are also lying awake at 3am replaying a text from 2017.

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Making Female Friends in Your 40s & Becoming ‘Mumsy’

This week on 40ish, Lauren ponders whether becoming “mumsy” is actually contagious, whilst Nicole continues her impressive streak of losing dog leads, car keys and essentially any object not physicall...

28 Touko 41min

Sienna Miller, Emotional Affairs & Marriage Red Flags

Today on 40ish: Lauren and Nicole win a comedy award and celebrate in true 40ish style - by having a yogurt and an apple on the way home. Huge congratulations to Sienna Miller who has welcomed her thi...

26 Touko 40min

Hot Doctors, Freelance Farts and the Anxious Vagina

On today's show: Nicole has an anxious vagina and is feeling mumsy on a Saturday night out, whilst Lauren is trying to play matchmaker in A&E with her friend and a hot Italian doctor. Because nothing...

21 Touko 42min

Midlife Problems: Pelvic Floors, Ex-Husbands & Dorothy Perkins

Today on 40ish: Nicole goes to the women’s physio and discovers that pelvic floor assessments are essentially the medical equivalent of rummaging around in a paper bag full of sweets. Dignity? Gone. M...

14 Touko 38min

More Menopause Symptoms, Tarty Shoes and the Toddler Turd

This week on 40ish: Lauren has put her neck out by sleeping on the wrong pillow, which feels deeply unfair considering that in our twenties we could sleep on a laminate floor and wake up absolutely fi...

12 Touko 37min

Weight Loss in Your 40s, Menopause at Work & Ottolenghi

This week on 40ish Lauren reaches peak midlife as she attends an wholesome Ottolenghi Cooking Club; yet somehow gets embroiled in a conversation about anal s*x within 3 minutes of arrival. Meanwhile N...

7 Touko 38min

Friendship Breakups in Your 40s, Menopause Feedback & Midlife Mean Girls

Today on 40ish Lauren wonders if Nicole is a totally new person post menopause. It kicks off with what may genuinely be the world’s worst lunch and ends as she rolls out of a hospital bed and attends...

5 Touko 40min