Retired with Husband: Superwoman's New Challenge

by Mary Louise Floyd

Witty, optimistic blueprint for the first-wave boomer Superwoman to ensure a successful second adulthood for both herself and her husband, also nearing retirement. Full of references to the first-wave... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889242268
• ISBN13: 9781889242262
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Vanderwyk & Burnham
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Really good tips for the right age group

RETIRED WITH HUSBAND by Mary Louise Floyd is Superwoman's New Challenge Defined. With the Baby Boomer generation reaching retirement age, senior years have to be redefined, and Floyd does so by naming the period Second Adulthood. Now that the pressure of having a career with demanding schedules and trying to balance home and family as well has ended, Superwoman does not settle for lolling around the house watching TV with a depressed husband who has nothing to do and feels demoted and useless. No! Her new challenge is to re-engineer her mate and their life by re-thinking retirement ideas and creating new challenges which her husband can command at home, entering a new career that makes her life easier and gives both partners time and energy for the fun things they have had to postpone until these years. The book has EXCELLENT ideas for putting the fun and energy into these years and creating the best time of life together. By all means, if you are retired or about to enter that phase of life, read this book! Her humorous tongue-in-cheek style make it fun to read, and her facts about the five decades of the Boomers' First Adulthood are insightful and interesting

For all women trying to make the most of their lives

Reviewed by Mary Simmons for Reader Views (11/06) Geared towards other superwomen, "Retired with Husband" is author Mary Louise Floyd's challenge for baby boomers to head into their second adulthood - life after retirement - with as much passion, skill and enthusiasm as they tackled their first adulthood. According to Floyd, Superwoman refers to, "that woman who proved she could be wife, mother, housekeeper, gardener, cook, family social chairperson, volunteer and wage earner." She writes from her own experience. A self-professed Superwoman, Floyd is also a retired educator who is living with her retired attorney husband. Together, they are facing the transition into life after work, which inspired the subject of this book. On the road to a fulfilling retirement couples are faced with a series of challenges along the way. One of the first goals Floyd sets for superwomen is to help their husbands find their new identity since they can no longer define themselves by what they do for a living. She says this transition is easier for most women because they are already living multi-dimensional lives. With this new stage will also come new friendships, as well as the need to work on existing relationships. Superwoman will have to help her husband communicate empathetically in order to nurture relations with parents, children and friends. Floyd says retirement does not have to be a swift descent into old age and dotage. In fact, she insists it will mean just the opposite for her generation. She advises retirees to do everything they can to find their gifts and live their lives to the fullest, through healthy living, risk-taking, volunteering, part-time work, consultation positions - anything that will allows them to, "be all that you can be - and haven't been yet." Throughout the book Floyd keeps her sense of humor, using wit and keen insight to highlight her observations and strategies. While this book focuses on how marriages can survive and thrive during the transition into retirement, Floyd also includes many interesting historical and societal facts that give context to why the baby boom generation is the way it is. Although her generalizations sometimes seem a little too sweeping and stereotypical, this context is helpful to the reader in that it shows where the commonalities come from. "Retired with Husband" is not just for superwomen of retirement age. As a single, twenty-something Gen-X female, I found the book was an interesting guide to the mindset of my parents' generation and a forecast to my own future. It addresses how all generations can learn to understand and empathize with each other through open communication and shared interests. I recommend it for all the superwomen out there who are trying to make the most of their lives.

Retired with Husband

In "Retired with Husband" the reader is taken on a journey into uncharted territory for baby boomers who are settling into retirement. Rather than an ending, it is cited as a delightful adventure into second adulthood, with new guidelines. Humorous and Empowering! --Carolyn Porter, D. Div., author of "The Realness of a Woman" For more information and a free ebook entitled Stress Free Living visit drcarolynporter.com

Strongly recommended reading

Mary Louise Floyd, herself a retired educator, community active, empty-nested mother with a retired-corporate-attorney husband, writes with a very special expertise about the challenges, strategies, and necessities of being a "first wave boomer" and entering the senior citizen years of retirement. There has always been pressure on baby boomer women to "have it all and do it all". Often that continues into the retirement years with "superwoman" expectations in "partnership marriages". Mary Floyd articulate defines and discusses the concept of "baby-boom superwoman", the "Gray Divorce" phenomenon, the challenges superwomen face with their retired husbands (and the strategies to deal with them); steps to establishing long-term goals and their achievement, all illustrated through her own experiences as on of those baby-boom superwomen. Strongly recommended reading, Retired With Husband is written with with, humor, insight, experience, and will prove to be one of the most engaging and informative introductions to helping women (and men) in similar circumstances master the changes that are occurring in their lives as aging baby boomers themselves.