It Gets Better: Happiness and Humor In Long-Term Relationships
December 5, 2018
You know them by their single names: Fred and Ginger, Bogey and Bacall, Barack and Michelle- all couples whose relationships seem to exemplify happy couples. And now there’s more scientific research to confirm the value of happy relationships for a meaningful life. The 75-year-old Harvard Study of Adult Development (profiled…
Still In Love: Lessons From Older Couples
October 31, 2018
While you may be tempted to call them “cute,” it’s likely older couples in long-lasting marriages have worked long and hard to sustain and maintain their relationships- and being cute has had nothing to do with it. Recent statistics suggest that 40-50% of all US marriages end in divorce and…
Fatal Attraction: Glenn Close Is The Wife
August 16, 2018
It’s an all too familiar story for women of a certain age: A decades-long marriage in which the wife sublimates her ambitions and talents to support the husband as he prospers and succeeds. For some couples, this arrangement works- for others, the combination of inflated egos and lost opportunities becomes…
Till Death Do Us Part: Couples At The End Of Life
August 9, 2018
Anyone married for a long period of time knows that every relationship goes through ups and downs. Perhaps the greatest, and final challenge of any marriage is the anticipation of the death of one of the spouses. One can imagine that is a time of enormous stress and anxiety, along with…
Newlyweds In Their Nineties: The Remarkable Story of Edith And Eddie
November 9, 2017
Getting married is always exciting and anxiety provoking- getting married in your 90s has got to heighten the level of excitement and anticipation. Getting married in your 90s, to a person of another race, adds more intrigue, and in this particular true life story, significant drama. Welcome to the story…