Mature Friendships Love and Romance

This insightful research-driven book offers practical advice to older adults seeking new intimate relationships lasting friendships and better relationships with family members and children.Written to appeal to men as well as women Mature Friendships Love and Romance: A Practical Guide to Intimacy for Older Adults is a serious book about love romance intimacy and sexuality as well as friendship and family. It is about what happens when older adults lack close relationships and about practical ways to address that isolation and loneliness. Through personal stories and vignettes readers will see how notions of friendship intimacy and love change as we age what mature love is and what factors can make it challenging. Among the topics discussed are late-life divorces and breakups of long-term relationships; finding new and intimate friendships; resolving problems with adult children that can emerge when you enter a new loving relationship; and choosing activities to increase your pool of potential friends and mates. Internet dating is addressed as are the general thoughts and actions of happy people who agree life can start at 60.