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| 2003
http://www.amazon.com/Survive-Your-Husbands-Midlife-Crisis/dp/B000JMK8UG/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282075502&sr=1-5
Courter and Gaudette offer stories, advice, resources, and a bit of humor. |
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| Pew Research Center, September 25, 2008
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/967/gender-power
Morin and Cohn's report shows that in married couples women tend to make more of the decisions, including financial ones. |
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| Contemporary Booms, 2002, out of print
http://www.amazon.com/Better-Worse-But-Not-Lunch-Retirement/dp/0809297205/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275089041&sr=1-19#_
Something of a classic on the psychological issues married couples have to deal with in retirement. |
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| National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green University, January 2010, Free
http://ncfmr.bgsu.edu/family_%20marriage_lit/Working%20Papers/PDFs/wp10-01.pdf
The authors report that middle age and older cohabitors (a growing group) and married people differ little in emotional satisfaction, pleasure, openness, time spent together, criticism, and demands. But cohabitors are less likely than marrieds to report a relationship as “very happy.” |
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| Pew Research Center, November 18, 2010, Free
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1802/decline-marriage-rise-new-families
As was widely publicized, this survey found Americans less inclined toward marriage, and more supportive of alternative household models, than in the past – with a belief in family remaining strong, but with broader definitions of what constitutes “family.” |
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| Thomas Nelson, 2009, $14.99
http://www.amazon.com/Language-Love-Respect-Cracking-Communication/dp/084994807X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3
Eggerichs discusses the importance of respect in marriage. |
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| Jossey-Bass, 2010, $19.95
http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Your-Marriage-Best-seller-Preventing/dp/0470485914/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275502191&sr=1-11#noop
The authors bring a wealth of information to bear on how to fix the destructive elements of a marriage, and turn it into something fun again |
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| Perigee Trade, 1994, $15.95
http://www.amazon.com/We-Can-Work-Out-Conflicts/dp/0399521372/ref=pd_sim_b_2
Notarius and Markman base their marriage advice on actual research with troubled couples. |
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| Dutton Adult, 2010, $25.95
http://www.amazon.com/Better-Science-Good-Marriage/dp/0525951385/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276017103&sr=1-1
Parker-Pope provides practical advice for couples, based on applying the lessons learned from scientific studies, not just platitudes and pop-psychology. |
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| Riverhead Trade, 2009
http://www.amazon.com/September-Songs-About-Marriage-Later/dp/B0035G0470/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276017749&sr=1-7
Scarf offers advice on successful long-term marriage, in the light of the experiences of seven couples that she interviewed intensively. |
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| Grand Central Publishing, 1996, $14.99
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Marriage-How-Love-Lasts/dp/0446672483/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276017124&sr=1-1
Wallerstein and Blakeslee identify characteristics of good, long-lasting marriages, based on interviews with 50 such couples. |
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| BookSurge Publishing, 2008, $17.99
http://www.amazon.com/Changing-Lanes-Couples-Redifining-Retirement/dp/1419695134#_
A solid general retirement planning book, covering many of the same issues as others do, but explicitly taking a couple’s point of view. |
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| Boston College Center for Retirement Research, February 2011, Free
http://crr.bc.edu/images/stories/Working_Papers/wp_2011-5.pdf
Honoré and de Paula use mathematical modeling to understand the reasons why working couples tend (usually) to retire close to the same time, but sometimes don’t. |
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| Pew Research Center, January 2010, Free
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1466/economics-marriage-rise-of-wives
This study finds that a larger share of women today, compared with 1970, have more education and income than their spouses. As a result, in recent decades the economic gains associated with marriage have been greater for men than for women. |
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| HarperOne, 2009, $14.99
http://www.amazon.com/First-Comes-Love-Then-Money/dp/0061649910/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305126842&sr=1-1
The Palmers address the extra complications that arise when each member of a couple has different needs, issues, and attitudes relating to money. |
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| University of Michigan Retirement Research Center, September 2008, Free
http://www.mrrc.isr.umich.edu/publications/papers/pdf/wp180.pdf
This study looks at the wealth differences of married vs. unmarried people, taking into account those who get divorced and remarried along the way. |
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| Jossey-Bass, 2001, $24.95
http://www.amazon.com/Empty-Nesting-Reinventing-Marriage-Leave/dp/0787960411/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276261853&sr=1-7
The authors focus specifically on the effects of empty nest syndrome on the marriage. |
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| Lincoln Street Press, 2011
http://www.amazon.com/Couples-Retirement-Puzzle-Conversations-Transitioning/dp/1936498073/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1302879241&sr=8-1
A user-friendly guide offering couples a foundation for effective communication along with 10 important conversations including if, when and how to retire, to help them craft a shared vision for their second half of life together. |