A couple's guide to happy retirement and aging : 15 keys to long-lasting vitality and connection / Sara Yogev, Ph.D.
Material type:
TextPublisher: [United States] : Familius, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: Third editionDescription: 346 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781945547713
- 1945547715
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Couple's Guide to Happy Retirement and Aging is the most comprehensive book devoted entirely to individual and couples relationship issues in the later stage of life. Not a treatise on money management, this is a much-needed guide to the psychological aspects of aging and how to make your relationship happy, fruitful, loving, and successful during your retirement years.
Written by Dr. Sara Yogev, a psychologist specializing in work and family issues, A Couple's Guide to Happy Retirement and Aging summarizes the latest research findings and draws from actual accounts of couples. This book will help you and your partner:
prepare emotionally for the dramatic life changes during retirement years find new purposes to your life beyond work nurture your relationship and strengthen your friendship and love as you age explore sexuality at this stage of life including how you can enjoy each other as much as you did as a younger couple implement strategies to successfully deal with differences around money, time together versus apart, housework, and family relationshipsThe 2018 edition includes new chapters about substance abuse, cohabitation, and the impact of technology on senior couples as well as updates to all previous chapters. It is crucial that couples prepare themselves and their marriages psychologically for their retirement years, which could very well be a quarter of their lives. A Couple's Guide to Happy Retirement and Aging shows you how to do that--so that you'll have the time of your lives.
Include bibliography (pages [341]-346).
Making yourself and your marriage ready for retirement -- Learning to let go of work and making the psychological shift to retirement -- Finding your purpose in retirement -- Readjusting the togetherness-separation balance -- The transition - making it easier for yourself and your marriage -- Gendered retirement - the different responses of men and women -- The psychological meaning of money -- The household arena -- Friendship --Family matters -- Relocation -- Alcohol consumption in retirement years -- New unions - cohabitation and living apart together (LAT) in the later stage of life -- The impact of technology on marriage and retirement-age adults -- The best retirement.
A Couple's Guide to Happy Retirement is the most comprehensive book devoted entirely to relationship issues in retirement. Not a treatise on money management, this is a much-needed guide to the psychological aspects of retirement and how to make your retirement relationship happy, fruitful, loving, and successful. The updated edition also includes sections about substance abuse and technology. It is crucial that couples prepare themselves, and their marriages, psychologically for life after retirement. A Couple's Guide to Happy Retirement shows you how to do that so that you'll have the time of your lives.