As Time Goes By: Boomerang Marriages, Serial Spouses, Throwback Couples, and Other Romantic Adventures in an Age of Longevity

As Time Goes By: Boomerang Marriages, Serial Spouses, Throwback Couples, and Other Romantic Adventures in an Age of Longevity

by Abigail Trafford
As Time Goes By: Boomerang Marriages, Serial Spouses, Throwback Couples, and Other Romantic Adventures in an Age of Longevity

As Time Goes By: Boomerang Marriages, Serial Spouses, Throwback Couples, and Other Romantic Adventures in an Age of Longevity

by Abigail Trafford

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Overview

People today are living longer and healthier lives than at any other time in history — with profound implications for the nature of their romantic relationships. In this inspiring new book, best-selling author Abigail Trafford describes how people over fifty are rewriting the script of love and in the process redefining the institution of marriage for future generations. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of men and women, married and single, gay and straight, she shows how the unprecedented period of vitality after midlife but before traditional old age is much more complicated romantically and sexually than those glossy images of gray-haired people on the beach would suggest. And she reveals how today's fifty-plus men and women are raising the bar on marital satisfaction. They are more likely to break up an unhappy liaison than previous generations; and they are more freewheeling in finding new formulas for romantic satisfaction.

Trafford deftly narrates what it means to love and be loved in the decades after midlife — and she offers solutions to the most common problems that define this time of life. Whether she's shedding light on "retired-spouse syndrome," sharing stories of sexual turmoil, explaining how to plan a marital time-out or navigate the troubled waters of divorce, Trafford's wise and compassionate counsel is imbued with her signature warmth and reassurance. As Time Goes By is an urgently needed guide to the pursuit of love and happiness in this dynamic stage of life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465018635
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 01/12/2010
Edition description: First Trade Paper Edition
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Abigail Trafford, an award-winning journalist and bestselling author, is a former health editor at the Washington Post. She is the author of My Time and Crazy Time. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue Arc of Love xi

Turmoil

1 The Big Churn 3

2 Retired Spouse Syndrome 25

3 In Sickness and Health 45

4 Sexy Beasts 67

Part 2 Surprise

5 Circus Act 89

6 Breaking Up 109

7 Romantic Adventures 129

8 New Normal 149

Part 3 Truth and Reconciliation

9 Sticking together 169

10 Boomerang Couples 191

11 Throwback Romance 211

12 Serial Spouses 231

Epilogue The Circle 253

Selected Bibliography 259

Resources 261

Index 265

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