by Sue Plumtree | Jul 23, 2021 | Uncategorised
One question I’m often asked is why I stayed in my marriage as long as I did. 37 years is a long time by any measure so why did I stay? As I’m sure you know, there are no simple answers but I’ll try. The first thought that comes to mind was that I was unable to admit...
by Sue Plumtree | Jul 12, 2021 | Uncategorised
Have you noticed the flood of talks and articles about managing stress? That’s probably because stress has become so widespread as to be almost regarded as normal. “What! You’re not stressed?!?! What’s wrong with you!?!?” I’m only half joking. It really is that...
by Sue Plumtree | Jul 5, 2021 | Health and Wellbeing, Love, Relationships, The Skill of Listening
I was recently thinking about love. Actually, I’m always thinking about love, except when I’m planning what to cook for my beloved. Ok, so that’s a bit of an exaggeration. Still, we did meet when I decided to start a new u3a group I called ‘Come Lunch With Me’. He...
by Sue Plumtree | Jun 24, 2021 | Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, Love, Relationships
Last week my husband Dave found a book in the library called, ‘Bolder: Making the most of our longer lives’ by Carl Honore. He read out the following quote by Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist. “Thinking you’re old makes your brain and body decline while thinking...
by Sue Plumtree | Jun 2, 2021 | Uncategorised
If you do, how is it working for you? We have two ways of reacting when we’re unhappy at home. We keep ruminating about the latest fight, what they said, what I said, what I should have said instead. And our performance suffers as a result. The other way of dealing...
