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 […]

Continue Reading

Grandparents – How to Enjoy Your Grandkids

Time seems to fly by. It’s probably not too difficult to recall the moment that you brought your own child into the world. We have watched our baby grow into an adult and have a family of their own. As parents of parents we may have been missing having our own children around full time […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading