Retired With Husband.Retired With Husband Mary Louise Floyd VanderWyk & Burnham PO Box 2789, Acton, MA 01720-6789 1889242268 $24.95 www.VandB.com Mary Louise Floyd, herself a retired educator, community active, empty-nested mother with a retired-corporate-attorney husband, writes with a very special expertise about the challenges, strategies, and necessities of being a "first wave boomer boom·er n. 1. Informal A nuclear submarine armed with ballistic missiles. 2. Informal A baby boomer. 3. A transient worker, especially in bridge construction. 4. " and entering the senior citizen years of retirement. There has always been pressure on baby boomer baby boomer also ba·by-boom·er n. A member of a baby-boom generation. Noun 1. baby boomer - a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s; "they expanded the schools for a generation of baby boomers" boomer women to "have it all and do it all". Often that continues into the retirement years with "superwoman su·per·wom·an n. 1. A woman who performs all the duties typically associated with several different full-time roles, such as wage earner, graduate student, mother, and wife. 2. A woman with more than human powers. " expectations in "partnership marriages". Mary Floyd articulate defines and discusses the concept of "baby-boom superwoman", the "Gray Divorce" phenomenon, the challenges superwomen face with their retired husbands (and the strategies to deal with them); steps to establishing long-term goals Long-term goals Financial goals expected to be accomplished in five years or longer. and their achievement, all illustrated through her own experiences as on of those baby-boom superwomen. Strongly recommended reading, Retired With Husband is written with wit, humor, insight, experience, and will prove to be one of the most engaging and informative introductions to helping women (and men) in similar circumstances master the changes that are occurring in their lives as aging baby boomers See generation X. themselves. |
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