Time together.
Not to be accused of reinventing the wheel, I checked out a couple of books on psychological aspects of retirement. The first one is "Happy Retirement - the Psychology of Reinvention" by dr Kenneth S. Schultz (2015), NY: Penguin Random House. Quite comprehensive, it covers subjects such as relationship between work and retirement, planning for retirement, psychology of change and transition, living well and reinventing yourself. Today I would like to summarize the authors thoughts on "Time Together" as it relates to my yesterday's post. Drawing from the research of Miriam Goodman who, reportedly, interviewed "several hundred subjects," the author makes the following recommendations: Take your time - you don't have to do everything you planned together right away Speak up - when partner wants something different than you. This goes along the lines of assertive communication I described in the previous post Stay connected - with other peopl...