#empty-nest

The children leave, parents need care, retirement looms and you both change. Here is why couples in midlife drift, what helps, and why some drifting is fine.

The kids have gone, work matters less and the streaming apps keep multiplying. A blunt look at how British men past 50 can avoid drifting and build a life worth getting up for.

Separate bedrooms, a shared calendar and nothing else to talk about? How to tell when a marriage has quietly turned into a flatshare, and what to do before it’s too late.

When the children leave home, the house goes quiet and the marriage gets examined. A clear-eyed look at the empty nest: the feelings, the relationship, the spare room and the money.