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10 Great Dates for Empty Nesters

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This book is much more than just ten unrelated date suggestions for Empty Nesters. The dates form a specific progression of activities designed to help you rekindle your relationship with each other. It can be hard for any couple to adjust their lifestyle after years of focusing on their children and suddenly that focus in their life is gone. The dates go from Celebrating the Empty Nest to Becoming a Couple Again, Rediscovering "Intimate Talk", Clearing the Air, Rocking the Roles, Discovering the Second Spring of Love, Loving Your Family Tree, Growing Together Spiritually, Investing In Your Future, and Feathering Your Empty Nest with Fun. The second part of the book is a dating guide that includes the plan for each date, dating ground rules, suggested things to discuss, directions to take on the date, etc. This is really an excellent guide and a bit of organized self-help therapy organized into a dating format. Creative, fun, and an opportunity to revitalize your marriage after the children are gone, 10 Great Dates for Empty Nesters is highly recommended.

Just started the book and I have already seen where I have been slipping. We have been emptynesters for 3 years and I had forgotten how to date as a married person, we have been married for 37 and things have changed a lot. Can't wait to get deeper in our dating process.

I really like this book, and I saw the Arps present the essence of it at a live seminar they gave. Many couples surround their whole existence with the kids, and then when the kids are gone they are not connected to each other like the good old days.

This book provides a way to start dating and having fun again while you grow together. You do not fight on the dates, you just follow their lead and address things you may not have talked about for a very long time. It may sound mechanical, but we have seen firsthand how fun this can be. It's refreshing to enjoy each other, talk about your second half of marriage and what is important to you as individuals and as a couple at this stage.

In the last chapter you decide whether or not both of you want to buy and live in an RV for the rest of your lives. Just kidding. Love the book--they do a great job making dating and intimacy easy at any stage of life. Another thumbs up!

I think this book is great, i read 10 great dates before you say i do and i thought this book would be great for my parents, they like it.