Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Intimacy in the Latter Years


As you age you still need to continue to have intimacy in your life.  There are many stages in the family life cycle from love, to dating, marriage, newly wed, having young children, parenting adolescents, empty nest, and grand parenting.   There are many different new challenges when growing older.  When parenting adolescents there is more of a need for communication because they want to be treated like an adult.  There is also financial stress because the child will need more money for car, college, and other expenses.  Parenting needs to adjust as the children grows older.  Sometimes the grandparents become the child’s parent because of certain situations.  It has been found that grandmothers feel more relaxed and involved because they have already been a parent.  Children may be hard at times but parenting is very rewarding.  I have heard of people that don’t have anything to look forward to when retiring because it always has been only the spouses and no children.  Older people also feel that they have accomplished something in life and feel proud to have grandchildren and children to call their family and also visit them in their older age.  When people get older there are different challenges but we all need to have intimacy and feel close to others.

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