HDFS 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Vaginal Lubrication, Sildenafil, Orgasm

• School: UConn
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS 1070
• Professor: Ronald Sabatelli

Document Summary

Just because a couple has been together their whole life does not mean they have a healthy and happy relationship: re-balancing the boundaries between work and family that occurs when both partners retire. Work creates time for couples to be apart from one another. When you retire, you have way more time to be together (ordinary difficulty, not always good but not bad) Myth: once you retire you will spend more time together. Couples want the same amount of separateness and connectedness. Desire to (cid:271)e separate fro(cid:373) part(cid:374)er=i(cid:374)sult to hi(cid:373)/her (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to spend more time with them. Myth: men/husbands will be more involved in family life and taking care of the households. Housework patterns stay the same after retirement: coping with the physical changes of aging (behavioral slowing) Do(cid:374)"t hear (cid:455)ou as (cid:449)ell a(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:373)ore, (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t do the thi(cid:374)gs (cid:455)ou depe(cid:374)ded o(cid:374) the(cid:373) to do.