One of the signature aims for Retire Better members is to live better for longer. For so many of us, that necessarily means living together better for longer.
At Switched ON Living, we use lots of words and ideas starting with ‘re’ in our effort to combat traditional retirement – we want to regenerate our health so that we can capture the wonderful, life-prolonging breakthrough technologies that are emerging; we want to reawaken our souls so that we embrace the wonder and beauty that’s around us; we want to reinvigorate our purpose so that we energise our wellbeing plans.
So here’s another ‘re’ word to add to our arsenal – reboot, and specifically rebooting our relationship with significant other.
We all know that our relationships are similar to our homes or our cars – they need maintenance. In this interview with CBS station WCCO in Minnesota, counsellor and ‘relationship guru’ Kirsten Lind Seal gives us an intelligent and very handy check list to get us thinking on how to reboot our relationships.
Kirsten is dead right when she talks about the transition couples experience after one or both of them retire. Unfortunately, for many couples it proves to be a slow-motion trauma as boredom and emptiness fill the vacuum of their days.
At the start of the interview, we learn that the rate of US grey divorce – couples aged over 50 – was twice as high in 2014 compared with 1990, and there’s no reason to think it’s any lower today.
And that’s why it’s so, so, so important for Retire Better members to invest in their wellbeing plans. While we might retire from our jobs, let’s never, ever, never retire from life.
Not when there’s so much fun we can have, so much we can learn, so much we can do, and so much love we can give and we can receive.
