SHALL WE DANCE?

Attention all men! Do you want to keep your wife happy in retirement? Forget about buying her bling or whisking her off to an exotic location. Instead, accompany her to dancing lessons.

Relationship counsellor Steven Dromgool advises that learning to dance is not only good for your health, but if you do it with a partner, it can benefit your relationship.

“It’s a good way of reigniting the connection with your partner because there aren’t many women on the planet who don’t like to dance. And they are so appreciative that a man will actually try to dance.

“If I can give one tip that will help in a number of areas – reinforcing the relationship, getting some physical activity, improving brain function and creating social connection – I would say try dancing. It gives you all of those in one hit.”

Steven says he has suggested dance classes to quite a few of his clients and found it has helped. “I can see the guys looking at me as if to say, ‘I hate you’, but they go along to a few sessions and they still hate me, and then six months later they’re saying, ‘Oh, it’s the best thing we ever did.’”

And you don’t have to be Fred Astaire – just look at it as a fun thing to do. “Older men tend to have a greater sense of security, so we can laugh at ourselves if we’re not that good. It’s important to have fun, otherwise life just gets boring.”