Hively
"What an achievement! Your ten upbeat conversation starters hit all of my
buttons! After living separately for the last fifteen years, my life partner
and I have just moved together into a shared home across the country
from familiar faces and places. Old attitudes and differences plus new
needs and issues have shown up quickly and caused me to wonder where
we could find a counselor to help us ‘get to yes.' With your book in hand,
we don't need a counselor! We hope to create a fertile environment for
both personal freedom and sustained togetherness. Thanks for your help
in guiding our transition."
--(Janet M. Hively, Ph.D., gerontologist, educator and co-founder of the
Vital Aging Network, the Minnesota Creative Arts and Aging Network,
and the SHIFT Transition Network)
Sadler
"If you and your partner are questioning how you can experience a fulfilling
life in retirement, then here is the book you've been waiting for.
Your journey forward in the second half of life is not a solitary venture.
Couples need to support each other's growth with mutual understanding
and encouragement. Dorian Mintzer and Roberta Taylor have drawn on
years of professional practice, personal experience, and research in shaping
exercises that will launch you on new adventures together."
--(William Sadler, Ph.D., author The Third Age:
Six Principles of Growth and Renewal After Forty,
Director of Research for the Center for Third Age Leadership,
and Professor of Sociology and Business at Holy Names University)
Newhouse
"The Couple's Retirement Puzzle is a much-needed and eloquent addition
to a growing field that has tended to ignore the importance of couples
working together to plan and create the post-midlife they want. Roberta
Taylor's and Dori Mintzer's wise advice, compelling stories, and practical
exercises will help to improve your communication, sharpen your
individual and joint decision-making, and ease your transitions into this
promising life chapter."
--(Margaret (Meg) L. Newhouse, Ph.D., Principal, Passion
and Purpose LifeCrafting and founder
of the Life Planning Network)
Harry R. Moody
"We spend a large fraction of our lives in retirement, but, unlike career
or marriage, we don't prepare for it, except by saving money. The Couple's
Retirement Puzzle helps us all make retirement less of a puzzle and more
of an opportunity."
--(Harry R. Moody, Director of Academic Affairs, AARP
)
Jeri Sedlar
"There is nothing easy about figuring out the future, and when you're
a couple, it's twice as challenging. Roberta Taylor and Dorian Mintzer
offer practical, thought-provoking advice as they help you put the puzzle
together. Read it before you retire and save yourself some pain!"
--(Jeri Sedlar, co-author, Don't Retire, REWIRE!
)
Chuck Yanikoski
The Couple's Retirement Puzzle reveals that, in the context of married lives,
the traditional issues related to retirement are far more complex and difficult
than is generally recognized. But Roberta Taylor and Dorian Mintzer
also show us that satisfactory resolutions are possible once the issues are
properly understood. In five years, there will be a dozen books imitating
The Couple's Retirement Puzzle, because it is such a critically important and
highly useful guide. Although other books may appear, this is the book
we will surely want to use and recommend to others."
--(Chuck Yanikoski, President of RetirementWORKS, Inc., and founder
of the Association for Integrative Financial and Life)
Lin Schreiber
"Every baby boomer couple should own this terrific, couple-friendly guide
to successfully navigate the retirement transition. Filled with must-have
conversations, real-life examples and a boatload of invaluable tips and techniques
for productive communication, this is the book I wish I had written."
--(Lin Schreiber, Encore Career Coach and Speaker
)
Carleen MacKay
"The Couple's Retirement Puzzle offers both a clear glimpse of the challenges
we all face in our ever-longer lifetimes and a blueprint for a successful
quality of shared life and relationships in retirement. The authors are
among a very few experts on the subject. If you read one book about the
subject, let it be The Couple's Retirement Puzzle."
--(Carleen MacKay, author of Plan "B" for Boomers and The 50,000 Mile
CareerCheckup, co-author of Boom or Bust and Return of the Boomers)
