[This ebook] offers a perceptive, examine established, and pragmatic method of operating with looking reconnection after years of childrearing....Marriage at Midlife should still take middle level on each counselor's bookshelf."
--Kathleen M. Galvin, PhD
Professor, conversation experiences,
Northwestern collage
The center interval of married life-what the authors name the "centerstage"-is usually the "make or holiday" element in a lifelong courting. Marriage at Midlife presents counselors, psychological healthiness execs, and marriage educators with the instruments they should help who're experiencing the demanding situations of the post-childrearing years. The authors take a resilience-based method of aid shield and increase lengthy, pleasurable relationships.
This booklet is enriched with the authors' adventure with who've been married among 20 and 50 years. each one bankruptcy comprises a gap narrative a few real-life couple, a bit deciding upon resources of misery, a bit outlining the analytical instruments wanted for every problem, and questions and workouts for consumers. in the course of the ebook are bulleted lists with quickly suggestion for on a variety of issues, corresponding to steered shared actions or suggestions for handling pressure.
Learn how you can aid couples:
Forgive earlier transgressions and select new, significant, shared actions
Adapt to midlife demanding situations, comparable to activity loss, relocation, and returning to school
Handle the strain of disease and caregiving
Redefine relationships with "boomerang kids," grownup young ones, and grandchildren
With this e-book, counselors will receive either the talents and the perception had to aid reimagine their relationships at this pivotal degree of their lives.
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