Description
Life in our 50s and 60s is a time of great change. It can be both wonderful and challenging for any relationship. This book is a guide to help you make the adjustments to your relationship that retirement often requires.
Most retirement planning doesn’t pay much attention to relationships, but the reality is that unless we are happy in our important relationships, life in retirement won’t be truly satisfying. Living with your partner 24/7 isn’t always easy and often requires some adjustments and compromises.
This book, written by experienced relationship counsellor, Sandra Kimball, gives you lots of practical advice on how to make your relationship stronger and happier as you adapt to a new life after full time work.
So what’s in the book?
Here’s a sample of some of the chapter headings –
Leaving work – Who are you when you wake up in the morning
Facing unaccustomed togetherness
Communication – Listening for a change
Sexuality – Beyond body parts
Forgive the past – release resentments
Modern families
When one of you gets sick
Scott Farrell –
After being married for 35 years, I wasn’t expecting to have relationship tensions when we were both retired, but that’s what happened. This book helped us to understand why we were having troubles and more importantly, it showed us what we could do to get past the conflict areas. Fortunately we are now enjoying a happier retirement.
Jennifer Fairlie –
I didn’t realise that being retired could cause stresses on what had been a long and fairly good relationship. Having both of us at home all the time caused tensions, especially around money and sharing household jobs. After reading this book my husband and I got a better understanding of what was happening to us and how we could get our relationship back on track.
Maxine Tonken –
I only wish my financial adviser had mentioned that retirement might not be smooth sailing when both of us are home 24/7. But no – we thought it would be easy and when our relationship became quite strained we had to go looking for some help.
Fortunately my sister told us about this book and after we both read it and used the work book pages at the end of each chapter we got a far better understanding of where we were and what we could do to repair our relationship. The book is easy to read and it certainly helped us.