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• Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a family-related problem sent in by a reader
We are in our mid-80s and have been together for 12 years.
Our relationship journeys to our meeting point were utterly different. My partner has two marriages behind her as well as a long-term partner. Mine was a marriage of over 40 years. My partner and I were colleagues for many years before our retirements.
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