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Our straight-talking, no-nonsense agony aunt Anne Robinson tackles the problems troubling you
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Q My daughter is getting divorced – no drama or affairs, but she says she and her husband are just existing side by side, living parallel but not connected lives, and she wants more out of life while she is still young.
After she told me I lay awake all night. She could have been talking about her parents! My husband and I rub along together, sometimes companionably sometimes sniping, but there’s no closeness and part of me longs to feel properly alive again. Am I being a foolish old woman?
A You are not a foolish old woman. How can you be? You’re a Saga reader! I understand how your daughter’s situation has set you thinking. There’s nothing like someone else telling you they are bravely facing up to huge change and demanding a better life to make you question what you are tolerating.