RETIREMENT FOR TWO EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW MARYANNE

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Title: Retirement for Two: Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy the Rest of Your Lives Together (Paperback)
Publishers price: 10.99 GBP
Author: Dr Maryanne Vandervelde
Publisher: Piatkus Books (January 6, 2005)
Size: 9.1 x 6 x 1.2 inches
Comments: New, Gift Quality, 320 pages, 431g, In stock - Sent fast from Irish booksellers.
Description:
 The baby boomer generation is coming up to retirement age. Within the next five years, millions of people will face retirement. Even couples who think they've seen it all are often surprised by retirement's unique relationship challenges.

Whatever the subject - sex, money, where to live, what to do, or how much time to spend together - Dr Vandervelde provides compassionate advice on how to communicate and reach a solution. Questions at the end of each chapter help clarify thoughts and encourage discussion and stories from other couples show you're not alone. Retirement for Two will enable you to make the post-work years the best of your lives together.

From Publishers Weekly

A refreshingly non-financial book about the pitfalls of retirement, this volume points out that retirement is a major life change: a withdrawal from the workforce, an acknowledgment of old age, a last chance to do what one wants in life. Couples chained together by exigency—raising children, maintaining a household, pursuing careers—suddenly confront an unexpected freedom. According to Vandervelde, a psychologist and author of several books (including The Changing Life of the Corporate Wife), some predictable quandaries often ensue. Spouses who aren't used to leisure or to the sudden absence of minions to bully may find themselves at a loss for structure or for friends. Money disputes about whether to spend it all or save for rainy days, and about whom should get inheritances and bequests and when, may erupt. And other disagreements—about where to live, how often to have sex, how much time to spend together and how to handle medical problems—can upset the balance between partners. Vandervelde evenhandedly addresses the concerns of gay couples as well as couples on their second or third marriage with mixed families. She is realistic about the ability of couples to manage and survive such upheavals, duly recording not just successes and failures, but also the imperfect, but workable, compromises in between. Perhaps this book's primary strength, however, lies in the author's ability to anticipate common crises and encourage couples to address them intelligently and in unison. After all, one's retirement years are inevitably one's last. This sensible volume will help readers ensure that they are, in fact, golden years. 

From Booklist

Although Vandervelde does mention practicalities such as choosing a place to retire and developing a financial plan, it's her attention to the emotional impact of retirement that sets this book apart from many others on the subject. The challenges of life with a partner 24/7 become abundantly clear, whether Vandervelde is discussing how to negotiate the health care system, revaluate relationships with grown children, reassess needs for intimacy and sex, adjust to physical changes that come with aging, or agree on time spent apart. Real-life scenarios, some from her experience as a therapist, and information drawn from a wide variety of supporting sources (all carefully cited in chapter notes at the back) enhance the discussion, and questions following each chapter allow readers to rethink Vandervelde's ideas in terms of their own situations. Vandervelde never pretends to have all the answers; identifying psychological signposts is her contribution here. Stephanie Zvirin

 




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