NextAge: Looking at love from both sides, now

Second half of life companionship may look a lot different than the first. Procreation is off the table, merging households holds new logistical challenges, and there’s often grown children with strong opinions to consider.

Whether it’s through death, divorce, or another kind of shift, love, intimacy and romance change as we age. And for many who end relationships that started in the first half of life, what they want out of the second looks very different. Our guests on the show today have, to quote the great Joni Mitchell, seen love from both sides now. They’ve been in love. They’ve been alone. They’ve got mixed feelings and find the beauty in it all. NextAge season 2 continues.

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This season of NextAge is made possible by a grant from the West End Home Foundation — Advancing Aging with Dignity and Strengthening Communities — and by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.

Guests

• Barb Opyt, Learning and Development consultant
• Angela Hobbs, retired trainer
• Philip Tulimieri, author

Natasha Senjanovic

Sheila McGee (L) wasn’t looking for a life partner when she joined FiftyForward in Donelson, but now she and Bobby Smotherman are hunting for a wedding venue