JULY 17-18, 2021 SILVER SPLITTERS Older couples are calling it quits on their marriages in increasing numbers – for better and sometimes for worse ELISSA LAWRENCE RUGGED REALITY TV SURVIVOR IN QLD TRUE CRIME INSIDE STORY OF CITY SEIGE CONTENTS Upfront Mel Buttle 3 William McInnes 3 28 Ordinary People 15 You and Me 16 Features Grey divorcees 4 THIS ISSUE Under the gun 8 True grit 12 Life+Style 23 The recent high-profile split of Wally Lewis Culture Club 19 and his wife Jackie highlights a growing Fashion 20 trend of older couples getting divorced after long marriages. Affairs are sometimes the Cafe 21 cause of the split but more often couples find Dining 23 after their kids have left home, they have 31 grown apart. Unfortunately it is women who Travel 24 are more likely to suffer financially from this Books 26 decision. Elissa Lawrence speaks to two Weddings 28 women with very different stories about their experience of “grey divorce”. Big Quiz 30 Also this week, Amy Price travels to My Life 31 Queensland’s far north west to visit the set of the new series of Survivor, where contestants CONTACT US: Write to the editor, Qweekend, and are put through some gruelling challenges in include full contact details so we can establish bona very difficult terrain. fides. Please keep letters to 100 words or fewer. Letters may be edited for brevity and clarity. EMAIL
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