Retired With Husband: Superwoman’s New Challenge

Retired With Husband: Superwoman’s New Challenge
Mary Louise Floyd
VanderWyk & Burnham
ISBN: 1-889242-26-8
Non-Fiction, Women’s Issues
Reviewed by Vianna Renaud

A highly accomplished mother and career woman, Ms. Floyd draws upon her own experience to bring this new and exciting book to life. Using corporate re-engineering strategies coupled with plenty of humor to empower her readers to redefine retirement for themselves and their partners, she will lead you along the journey to finding your new zest for life. As the newly retired couple needs to find ways to adjust to a new lifestyle, she addresses such challenges as thinking retirement is downtime, when our partner doesn’t listen, amidst many other common myths. Structured in an easy to follow format, she will spend time looking at the Superwoman, getting a new identity in real time, giving and getting love, re-engineering your lifestyle, and setting the pace for twenty-first
century second adulthood.
In this book Ms. Floyd salutes those women who have spent their lives in the true balancing act of juggling marriage, motherhood, home management, and a career. The skills they’ve honed during the years can now be slightly tuned to take on the new stage of retirement for both themselves and their partners.
I felt that this book and Ms. Floyd delivered exactly what was promised. Not only did she present a list of common challenges, she also put forth various lists of strategies to better help with the transition. A thoroughly entertaining book full with informative and intelligent points, I think that every Superwoman out there should pick herself up a copy.