Marriage Metamorphoses: Heading Into the Late-Life Unknown
When people get married, the vows usually include something to the effect of "for as long as you both shall live." The possibility of divorce notwithstanding, the goal, at least, is that your marriage should be permanent. Often, however, it's not -- not necessarily because couples may split but because any long-term marriage is likely to go through a series of significant transitions that change it into a whole different relationship over time.
In this podcast, Motley Fool Answers co-hosts Robert Brokamp and Alison Southwick talk with Jennifer Petriglieri, an associate professor of organizational development at the international business school INSEAD. Author of the book Couples That Work, she joins them to talk about those personal and professional transitions and offers up some tools that can help us get through them.
In this segment, she delves into the third common transition, which takes place in our 50s: your sense of identity gets lost, you realize you're running out of time, and there are a lot of issues that you and your spouse have been sweeping under the rug for years that you really need to look at head on.
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