Relationships
Romantic Relationships, also Family and friend relationships articles and tips
How to Revive your Relationship in Retirement.
Have you noticed those cute elderly couples that obviously adore each other? You know the ones that you ask yourself ‘How did they get so lucky”. They will be together for the rest of their lives. They appear to really care for each other. They watch out for each other, they hold hands while they’re […]
Divorce and the Over 50s
Don’t get me wrong I am not an advocate for divorce at any age. Nor am I an advocate of living a miserable life. When you know there’s nothing but misery left in your relationship and you’ve done all you possibly can to try improve the problems to no avail, why prolong the misery? To […]
Concerns for Aging Parents
As we reach 50 and over unless our parents have already passed on most of us will start having a number of concerns about our aging parents. The degree of assistance that you can personally provide them if and when they need it will depend a lot on whether you live close to them, also […]
Retired and Single
So… what’s next for You? If you’ve been working really hard all these years, you may have been so focused with your job that you were not even thinking about a love life. You are certainly not alone in this world of growing singles. Re-evaluate your Life When it comes to that time when […]
10 Tips To Getting Out Of A Relationship Rut
With few exceptions, marriage can invite tribulations especially when neither of the partners is willing to give way. Traits can play an important role in the outcome of marriage. If either of the couple is extremely forgiving and understanding, problems that often make a marriage start to falter, or any relationship for that matter, can […]
10 Signs That You Are In An Abusive Relationship
Age makes no difference when it comes to relationship abuse. We tend to think that abusive relationships generally happen to the young because they are naive and do not have enough experience in relationships to know better. Many older people will have stayed in abusive relationships for many years, and there are others that may […]
The Keys To Successful Dating Over 50
Even though I agree with the old adage that says “Age does not matter”, I have still seen many individuals’ egos shrink as they grow older. There is an internal belief especially among this age group that dating seems to be only for the young. Now is the time to assert ourselves and say that […]
Remember When-Memories To Share
As you think back to your younger years and any family get-togethers that you attended, you were probably more interested in playing with any cousins that were similar in age than you were in spending time with aunts, uncles, or grandparents. We weren’t generally interested in our parents’ memories, nor our older relatives or their […]