As Time Goes By

A guide to the pursuit of love and happiness after midlife. It explores how men and women are reinventing and reinvigorating their relationships, proposing a different definition of love and marriage that takes into account the impact of longevity on relationships.

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In this inspiring book, best-selling author Abigail Trafford describes how people over fifty are rewriting the script of love and in the process redefining the institution of marriage for future generations. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of men and women, married and single, gay and straight, Trafford explores what it means to love and be loved in the decades after midlife,and offers solutions to the most common problems that define this period, such as retired spouse syndrome" and divorce. Wise and compassionate, As Time Goes By is an essential guide to the pursuit of love and happiness in this dynamic stage of life.