{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65cd6ec702ec7000165633e7/6a9e32fd3559f174783f9247?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Romance Recession: Women Are Rethinking Love & Relationships | Natalia Rachel ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65cd6ec702ec7000165633e7/1788752475712-ffa95e9e-fc1d-4804-b7b8-1cc931253e59.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Nearly a third of all divorces in Australia now happen after fifty.</p><p><br></p><p>In 1990, that figure sat at 13%. Today, roughly 32% of all divorces in Australia now occur among people over 50 …and that number continues to climb.</p><p>This year, the highest divorce rate in the country belongs to women and men aged forty-five to forty-nine.</p><p><br></p><p>Writer, relationship and culture innovator Natalia Rachel has a name for what's sitting underneath those numbers. She calls it the romance recession, and once you hear her reasoning, you won't unhear it.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Di sits down with Natalia, author of Why Am I Like This? and Other Lovers, to trace why midlife divorce is climbing, why so many women have shifted their perspective on what they value in a relationship, and what you need to work on before you let love back in.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>We explore:</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Why the divorce rate for women and men aged 45–49 has hit a national high, and what it says about empowerment rather than failure.</li><li>Natalia's theory of the romance recession, and why women need a man less once financial stability and motherhood are no longer the deciding factors.</li><li>The difference between healing before you date and healing through dating.</li><li>How to spot an unavailable man before you waste your time.</li><li>Why interdependence, not independence, is the real target in midlife love.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Key takeaways</strong><em>:</em></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Women are becoming more empowered and less willing to settle for unfulfilling relationships.</li><li>The importance of emotional availability and genuine connection over superficial attraction.</li><li>Understanding your baggage and wounds helps prevent repeating past relationship patterns.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>🎧 Watch and subscribe to: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>✔ Subscribe on YouTube:</strong> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeuAx74qUBrHxaQPEnxRpTw?sub_confirmation=1</p><p><strong>✔ Follow on Spotify:</strong> https://open.spotify.com/show/4hUXLl9Oc8xSSmR652wP3c?si=554c1a25f0e848a8</p><p><strong>✔ Follow on Apple Podcasts:</strong> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/power-of-women-podcast/id1735659590</p><p><strong>✔ Follow on the website:</strong> https://powerofwomen.com.au/podcast/</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Who is Natalia Rachel?</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Natalia is a writer, relationship and culture innovator and award-winning trauma-informed educator whose work moves between the healing arts, the creative arts and education. She's is the author of Why Am I Like This?, and the creative force behind the genre-bending Love Sex Poetry Peace trilogy, which opens with Other Lovers. Natalia built Asia's first integrated somatic trauma clinics, has spoken and taught across Asia, the US, Europe and Australia. Her belief is simple: the more of us who heal, the faster our world transforms.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Find Natalia at:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Website</strong> https://www.nataliarachel.com/</p><p><strong>LinkedIn </strong>https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-rachel-9505b023/</p><p><strong>Instagram </strong>https://www.instagram.com/natalia_rachel_change/</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Connect with Di &amp; engage with Power Of Women: </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>LinkedIn</strong>&nbsp;https://www.linkedin.com/in/di-gillett-power-of-women/</p><p><strong>Instagram</strong>&nbsp;https://www.instagram.com/power_of_women_podcast/</p><p><strong>Contact</strong>&nbsp;https://powerofwomen.com.au/contact/</p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>💫 If this conversation lit a spark, please share the episode and help spread the stories that validate why women supporting women should not be underestimated.</p><p>Your ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify keeps these stories alive.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Credits:</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Audio Editing + Sound Design: Daryl Missen – https://vinilo.com.au/</p><p>Executive Producer: George Donikian: https://www.donikianmedia.com.au/</p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>Disclaimer:</strong>&nbsp;https://powerofwomen.com.au/podcast-disclaimer/</p>","author_name":"Di Gillett"}