Category Archives: intimate partner

Get Ready to Refresh Your Marriage

by phyllis, April 11, 2012

If you’re new to this blog, scroll down to Monday and read the post about how to make a good marriage better. There you’ll find practical tips and links to get you off to a good start. And below are a few more ideas that may help: Ask for what you need. No one’s a mind reader. Sometimes, out of frustration or resentment, couples stop talking. Recommit to understanding each other’s anger or disappointment. If you meet halfway, you’ll both get more of what you want. Invest in your own … Continue reading →

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How to Make a Good Marriage Better

by phyllis, April 9, 2012

You know what they about a stable marriage that’s moving along with no major hurdles – ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ But you may feel that your relationship just hasn’t reached its full potential or that something is missing. Believe it or not, you can break out of the routine and recapture some of the magic.According to the field of interpersonal neurobiology, the brain is constantly changing. And that has a lot to do with your daily interactions. All relationships, especially loving ones, alter the brain circuits that … Continue reading →

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Gray Divorce

by rosemary, March 19, 2012

Are you and your spouse still happy, sharing activities like exercising together? If so, you may not know about a new trend hitting baby boomers – Gray Divorce. In the past 20 years, the divorce rate for boomers has doubled even as the total divorce rate has been going down. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2009 more than 25% of all divorces were among couples over 50. AARP has identified that in 2/3 of these divorces, it is women who seek the split. Often their motivation is to … Continue reading →

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Virtual Book Tour: Nobody Knows the Spanish I Speak

by phyllis, February 21, 2012

Have you ever thought about dropping out and having a midlife adventure? If so, you’ve come to the right blog, as we welcome author Mark Saunders to our Virtual Book Tour. Facing the prospect of job loss in their late 50s, Mark and his wife chose to drop out, sell everything and move to the central highlands of Mexico, where they didn’t know a soul and couldn’t speak the language. Mark’s here to answer questions about his hilarious novel, Nobody Knows the Spanish I Speak: Nourishing Relationships: Why did you … Continue reading →

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