Making the Years Golden

Hats off to AARP for debunking another myth about retired people.  The conventional wisdom about the way retirement affects married couples goes something like this:  Once the husband and wife find themselves stuck in each other’s company every minute of every day, they drive each other crazy and fretfully yearn to return to work.  Independent researchers for AARP - The Magazine did a phone survey of more than 1,00 retirees between the ages of 55 to 75 years old.  What they discovered is that relationships remained as strong as they had been or became even stronger once these people retired.  In fact, 74 percent of the respondents said they were happier in retirement than they had been when they were working.  A second honeymoon but with a different twist from the first.  This time around, however, the joy of sex seems to be replaced by the joys of traveling, eating out, exercising, volunteering, pursuing their hobbies and what else, but surfing the Internet.  Go figure, reaching the big “O” is now replaced with shopping on-line at the big “O.” Read more »