For a significant number of people planning to work or retire abroad after 50, the question of what to do with a pet is not a minor logistical detail — it is one of the primary factors shaping which countries are realistic destinations and how the transition gets planned. The good news is that movin…
Most close friendships don’t end dramatically. They end slowly — through the accumulation of less frequent contact, shallower conversations, gradually more polite and less honest exchanges, and the growing sense that the person you’re having coffee with every few months is someone you used to know r…
“Boundaries” has become one of the most used and most misunderstood words in the popular psychology of relationships. It is frequently invoked as though it primarily means telling other people what they are not allowed to do — a kind of relational rulebook that, if properly published and enforced, w…
Few experiences in a parent’s life are more painful than the realization that an adult child has withdrawn — either completely, in the form of deliberate no-contact, or gradually, in the form of increasing distance, unanswered calls, and a relationship that has been reduced to obligatory holidays an…
People over 50 have typically developed a sophisticated set of strategies for avoiding difficult conversations — and an equally sophisticated awareness that those strategies have costs. The colleague whose behavior you addressed obliquely rather than directly, the friendship that gradually cooled be…
Illness and caregiving are dimensions of relationships after 50 that arrive with greater frequency and greater weight than at any earlier life stage, and they test relationships in specific ways that health and happiness do not. The relationship between two healthy, independent adults who are choosi…
Financial issues are among the leading contributors to relationship stress and relationship dissolution at every age, but the specific financial landscape of relationships after 50 is different enough from earlier-life financial dynamics that it warrants its own attention. People over 50 bring to ne…
Adults over 50 are rewriting the relationship script — choosing LAT arrangements, committed non-marriage, companionate partnerships, co-housing, and chosen family networks. A map of the major non-traditional models and what they offer.
How to position yourself, build your LinkedIn presence, write a capability statement, activate your network, and grow your reputation as a fractional executive or skilled volunteer in your second act.
What do you actually want in a relationship after 50? The spectrum from full partnership to companionate connection, how to get honest with yourself about your needs, and why naming what you want is the only path to finding it.