Making yourself and your marriage ready for retirement -- Learning to let go of work and making the psychological shift to retirement -- Finding your purpose in retirement -- Readjusting the togetherness: separation balance -- The transition: making it easier for yourself and your marriage -- Gendered retirement: the different responses of men and women -- The pyschological meaning of money -- The household arena -- Friendship --Family matters -- Relocation -- Alcohol consumption in retirement years -- New unions: cohabitation and living apart together (LAT) in the later stage of life -- The impact of technology on marriage and retirement-age adults -- The best retirement.