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Staying connected is the center senior experience. To retire successfully, it is important to have relationships in your life that make you feel attached. Adult living may mean a new involvement in senior organizations, retirement centers, the 55 community, as well as with family and friends. Retirement Life Matters provides information about the multitude of relations you have in your life and how to make them thrive.
If you are part of a couple, the retirement transition can be a wonderful opportunity to reconnect. But it also provides challenges to discuss and face individually and together. This can be to family, but should also include friends, both peers and people of other generations. Coach Stephen Frueh discusses a fresh approach in Married: Growing Up and Out!
Whether planned or not, many of the boomer generation are facing retirement as single. Discussion about dating and relationships as we get older provide a new perspective on an old topic. More the mature single senior, social connections are being found on the Internet with Pros and Cons of Online Dating. If you haven't dated in a while, it can be a scary thing, but First Date Ideas for Seniors makes suggestions of ways to get the ball rolling. Sex is still an eager topic as many of the myths are explored in The Facts about Senior Sex.
Extended family, grown children and grandchildren may center senior activities. While a difficult topic for the senior family, understanding Grandparents and Divorce will help the many people who are faced with this situation. On the fun side, Travel with Grandchildren offers tips about making the most of this experience.
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Overcome First Date Nerves
Preparing for a first date can be very stressful for people of any age. Dating jitters are very common, but they can be even worse when it comes to senior dating. If you are an adult, 55 and over, you may find yourself even more worried a ... |
Can Love Last Forever?
If you’re approaching your senior years, you may question whether love can last forever. Well, the simple answer is – yes! Building a happy and rewarding relationship for life over 50 can be challenging, but is well worth the effort. ... |
Couples Transition into Retirement
Many couples eagerly anticipate retirement. They envision exciting romantic vacations and lots of free time to relax and pursue their favorite hobbies. However, retiring brings about many unexpected mental and emotional changes. In ... |
Date Safely Online
Many active seniors are turning to the Internet for online dating. This is understandable, given the busy schedules many of us face. Whether you’re 25 or 55 and over, you may find the love of your life on the Internet. The Internet ... |
First Date Ideas for Seniors
Do you remember your first date? You were probably very excited and also a little nervous… If you are a senior, new to the dating scene, you may be even more apprehensive. The senior population is looking for great ideas for first d ... |
Grandparents and Divorce: What You Need to Know
Divorce is often one of the most devastating and painful experiences a person can experience. Parents and children often suffer physically and emotionally when couples decide to part ways. However, many people tend to overlook the powerfu ... |
Married: Growing Up and Out
By Stephen W. Frueh PhD
What many people call retirement is really only a shift in activity and a release from duty. The release from duty is not guaranteed. Some of us are addicted to feeling guilty and duty bound and so spend our later y ... |
The Relationship between Men, Women and Money
What is it about money that often creates friction, tension and anger for people worldwide? Money has a very profound effect on people. In fact, finance issues are one of the most prevalent causes of divorce and can ruin relationships.&nb ... |
From Lust to a Committed Relationship
Dating can be an exciting, but challenging prospect at any age, especially for relationships over 50. However, senior dating can be even more complicated. You may be much more anxious to move from lust to a committed relationship than whe ... |
Pros and Cons of Online Dating
Online dating is growing increasingly popular, not only with younger individuals, but also with mature women and senior men. In fact, certain online dating services are designed specifically to help singles over 50 meet. You may find your ... |
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
By Cathy Severson, MSAs the boomers transition into retirement, marriages can be tested. What’s the most important characteristic in a happy marriage? Research indicates most married couples report trust is the central factor in a healthy ... |
The Facts about Senior Sex
If you are approaching retirement activities, you may be comforted by the fact that seniors can continue to enjoy a healthy and exciting sex life. Contrary to popular belief, senior sex is alive and well. In fact, most individuals in rela ... |
Travel Romance at Any Age: The True Facts
What is it about single seniors travel that seems to go hand in hand with romance? Many movies and novels throughout the centuries have explored the common allure of a whirlwind travel romance. This is a great for older women seeking men ... |
Plan a Trip with Your Grandchildren
If you have recently retired, you may find that you have much more time to enjoy with family and friends. Extra disposable income is another advantage many seniors enjoy after spending much of their life working hard to earn a living. A g ... |
The Dating Goddess Speaks!
For the generation who invented the sexual revolution, you’d think the boomers would have solved the mysteries of love. Not so. They’re just as confused and confounded as they were in the days of free love. Where to turn for advice? ... |
Expectation or Intention
By Kat and Curtis KnechtEditors Note: This first arrived in a newsletter on Valentines Day. The topic transcends a particular holiday and is so well explained, I asked Kat if I could share it here. Often the topic of Romantic Love o ... |
Support or Enable: When to Help Adult Children
Reading the Sunday paper recently, there was column from a parent asking when it is appropriate to help adult children. In this case, both son and daughter in-law were unemployed. Their landlord was going to sell the house they were living and ... |
The Lessons of Bitterness
By Christa KingIf I feel bitterness and angry feelings against the last two people with whom I have worked, is it them, or is it me?I have worked with hundreds of people in the course of my life and most have just faded out of memory. A few hav ... |
Ten Tips for Divorcees over Forty-Five
Ed. Note-Being a divorcee for women over forty is a much different experience that being divorced at an earlier age. Author Erica Manfred shares her top tips for not only landing on your feet, but creating a wonderful life after He’s History.By ... |
Dealing with Aging for Divorcees
An Excerpt from He’s History, You’re Not:Surviving Divorce After 40By Erica Manfred One of the hardest struggles we older divorcees have is aging. When you’re married, you feel you can relax about getting old—your life i ... |
Surviving Divorce After 40 Part 1
Q & A With Erica ManfredAuthor of He’s History, You’re Not: Surviving Divorce After 40What’s the difference between divorce after forty for women and those under forty?Well, I now think forty is young since I’m over sixty, but once you’re over fo ... |
Surviving Divorce After 40 Part 2
Q & A With Erica ManfredAuthor of He’s History, You’re Not: Surviving Divorce After 40Why are women the ones who initiate divorce in two thirds of over-fifty divorces? People assume it’s older men who leave, usually for younger women.An AARP surv ... |
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