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Index
Introduction to the Third Edition
Making Yourself and Your Marriage Ready for Retirement
A Troubling Trend
Retirement as a Psychological Process
A Major Life Transition
Why Individuals Have Difficulty with This Major Life Transition
Why Couples Are Having Problems in Retirement
Learning to Let Go of Work and Making the Psychological Shift to Retirement
The Four Elemental Meanings
Retirement Satisfaction vs. Adjustment to Retirement
Exercises:
Finding Your Purpose in Retirement
The Honeymoon Stage
Physical, Intellectual, and Creative Stimulation
A Life of Leisure: Making the Most of It
Volunteering: Helping Yourself by Helping Others
Finding the Right Activity
Bridge Employment
Exercises:
Readjusting the Togetherness-Separation Balance
The Paradox of Togetherness vs. Separation
Sexual Intimacy
Psychological Factors Linked with Sex-Life Decline and Aging
Stages in the Intimacy Pattern
Resolving Differentiation Issues in Retirement
Exercises:
The Transition— Making It Easier for Yourself and Your Marriage
Dealing with Depression
Entering Retirement with the Right Attitude
The Reasons for Smooth vs. Rough Transitions
Characteristics of Those Who Have Smooth Transitions
Involuntary Retirement
Who Should Not Retire
Exercises:
Gendered Retirement— The Different Responses of Men and Women
Gender Gaps: Three Key Differences
Why Women Have Trouble with the Transition
Social Activities: Recognizing an Unequal Need to Get Out of the House
Homemakers vs. Employed Women
Retirement Timing: Who Should Retire First
Joint Retirement
Exercises:
The Psychological Meaning of Money
How Retirement Increases Money’s Psychological Impact
Upsetting the Money Balance
Values about Money
Gender, Money, and Marital Satisfaction
Earning and Handling Money
Money Styles
Exercises:
The Household Arena
Marital Dynamics and Housework
Research, Retirement, and Housework
Potential Scenarios
How and When: Setting the Terms for Household Chores
Exercises:
Friendship
A Voluntary Relationship
Gender Differences and Friendship
Friendship Styles
Friendship Tensions within a Marriage
Why Friendship Takes On Increased Importance after Retirement
Friendship and Marriage after Retirement
Obstacles to Keeping the Friends You Had Before Retirement
Exercises:
Family Matters
Grandchildren
When Grandparenting Styles and Expectations Clash
Adult Children
Parents
Other Family Members
Inheritance
Exercises:
Relocation
Reasons for Relocation
Characteristics of Those Who Relocate
Obstacles to Satisfaction in Retirement after Relocation
Gradual Relocation
Pressure on the Couple after Relocation
Moving to New Housing in the Same Community or “Retiring-in-Place”
Relocation Resources
Exercises:
Alcohol Consumption in Retirement Years
Alcohol Guidelines and the Physiology of Aging
Important Terms Related to Problematic Alcohol Consumption
Reasons Retirees Give for Their Alcohol Consumption
Relationship between Retirement and Alcohol Consumption
Impact of Marriage on Alcohol Drinking
The Story of Two Sisters
Exercises:
New Unions— Cohabitation and Living Apart Together (LAT) in the Later Stage of Life
Characteristics of Retirement-Age Adults’ Cohabitation
Reasons of Cohabitation vs. Marriage
Living Apart Together (LAT): Partners in Different Households
Viable Alternatives
Exercises:
The Impact of Technology on Marriages and Retirement-Age Adults
Impact of Technology on Relationships and Family Life of All Ages
Impact of Technology on Older Adults
Exercises:
The Best Retirement
Ten Steps to Take in Order to Have the Best Retirement Together
Retirement Past, Present, and Future
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About Familius
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