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The Good News About Marriage in the Later Years
Riverhead Hardcover
September 2008
On Sale: September 4, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 1594488509
EAN: 9781594488504
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An unexpectedβand surprisingly positiveβ exploration of the benefits awaiting married baby boomers in their βbonusβ years from the New York Timesβbestselling author of Intimate Partners. In September Songs, journalist and author Maggie Scarf finds that marriage has undergone some fascinating changes since she wrote her bestselling Intimate Partners. Over the course of the twentieth century, thirty years of life have been added to normal human life expectancyβwhat the author calls βthe bonus years.β This means that couples will often live together for years after their children have left home, and perhaps well past retirement. This extra time is bringing change to our long-term relationships, especially marriage. In a series of intimate interviews, Scarf delves into the lives of couples married for more than two decades and discerns encouraging new insights about marriage. Seen through the eyes of these baby boomers as they move into this new phase of life, we hearβin the couplesβ own wordsβhow they survived the bumps together and learned to balance their needs with those of their partners. Scarf reveals that, in many ways, men and women in long-term marriages are far happier and more fulfilled in their relationships today than when they were younger. A compelling and human portrait of the long-term emotional, psychological, and physical benefits of a lasting commitment to another, September Songs uncovers the challenges and new opportunities couples find to love, cherish, and live alongside each other in the extra years they have together.
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