{"id":403253,"date":"2026-04-17T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403253\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:52:10","slug":"its-perfect-meet-the-couples-practising-lat-living-apart-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403253\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s perfect\u2019: meet the couples practising LAT \u2014 living apart together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAs the number of people dating in midlife and post-divorce increases, many are moving away from traditional relationship patterns. Alana Kirk speaks to committed couples who choose to live in separate homes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lucy O'Reilly has stayed living in her own home in D\u00fan Laoghaire, Co Dublin, while her partner has done the same up North. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/22209661-64c8-4cfb-a99f-aeaba1a51115.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lucy O&#8217;Reilly has stayed living in her own home in D\u00fan Laoghaire, Co Dublin, while her partner has done the same up North. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As if midlife dating wasn\u2019t daunting enough, navigating relationships may now require a dictionary of explainers for the expanding menu of possibilities: there are friends with benefits; LAT (living apart together); being single with lovers; and blended families to navigate \u2013 a smorgasbord of options that are redefining romance and relationships in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Among them, LAT is emerging as a particularly compelling model for midlife couples, who may have been there and done that already, but still want intimacy and companionship without the domestic, financial or logistical entanglements of living under the same roof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the number of people dating in midlife and post-divorce increases, many are moving away from traditional relationship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77748,93,61,60,898,128197,137286],"class_list":{"0":"post-403253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-daily-features","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker","13":"tag-shp","14":"tag-signature-enjoy-life"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}