Married After 40

Many single women believe that a woman's chances of getting married are next to nothing once they've reached age 40. The media loves to play on their fears, with stories comparing the odds to being struck by lightning, or kidnapped by terrorists. Yet each year some 275,000 American women age 40 or older marry or remarry. In Getting Married After 40, 100 women who have beaten the odds share their stories of how they managed to meet men, overcame their fears and hang-ups, survived the first dates, handled potential step-kids, and other crucial dating and mating issues. These women, all savvy, self-confident, and articulate, don't pretend, that it isn't difficult to adjust to life with a man after years of being on their own. But the rewards, they insist, are well worth it for any woman willing to take the plunge. In Getting Married After 40, they reveal the pleasures -- as well as the pitfalls -- and offer practical, step-by-step advice and encouragement to other women who want to find a good man to love.

You Can't Hurry Love dispels the myths of the old maid and the confirmed bachelor, showing how and why more and more people over 40 are finding themselves newlyweds. It draws on the personal testimony of those who beat the odds to explain why they didn't marry earlier.

A groundbreaking book--based on years of the same thorough research that made the "Dress For Success" books national bestsellers--about how women can statistically improve their chances of getting married.

How do you build a lasting marriage when marrying later in life - after you've established a career, a life as a single woman? This book tells of the author's journey from her initial prayer to God for a mate to learning to live and love as she adjusts to the life she prayed for. She describes her experiences and shares with her readers the lessons learned while embracing this new phase of her life - as a woman who married for the first time at the age of 41.

A crash course in commitment: one couple and forty dates that could make or break their marriage before the wedding. Picking a partner is life’s most important decision, but how are we supposed to make it? Being in love is a good start, but the issues that ultimately wreck marriages—money and monogamy, career and kids—are hard to gauge until you’re actually hitched. So after a few years of dating, Jill Andres and Brook Silva-Braga built The Marriage Test to confirm their compatibility before saying “I do.” Forty revealing challenges simulate the issues that could tank or strengthen their union. For a month, they swap credit cards, for a weekend they borrow a baby. An embarrassing lunch with their exes tests their trust issues. Sexual gymnastics are required to recreate TV love scenes. From a night of speed dating to 24 hours handcuffed together, the crazy, awkward, emotional trials fling them headfirst into assorted marital minefields. Is their love strong enough to weather real life? Only forty dates will tell...

This book is a shining light to all women who have loved, who have lost, and who have given up on ever finding love again. The author recounts her journey to love and marriage at age fifty-three along with other women over forty, fifty, and sixty, who candidly share their secrets of letting go of their safely guarded independence to take another chance on love; the barriers they overcame; the circumstances that prevailed and their willingness to adapt; new perceptions and attitudes adopted; and fate, which intervened, turning their dreams into realities. Fox has gleaned snippets of information from experts in the field of relationships, capturing the essence of love's most important lessons. We know that we cannot change our past, but what about our future? The stories contained herein will prove that love can happen when we have that burning desire to persist and make it happen and, in some cases, when we completely let go and focus on our passion, determining what it is we really want and need to make us happy. The best is yet to come!

In He’s History, You’re Not: Surviving Divorce After 40, Erica Manfred shares her own divorce experience, as well as the advice of experts, with specific sections tailored to women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. Manfred was left for a younger woman in 2003, and eventually learned to both survive and thrive. After educating herself in the areas many women have barely even thought of when considering divorce, she is the kind of girlfriend a woman needs when facing both menopause and the trauma of divorce. She can help save divorcees lots of anguish, and lots of cash. HE’S HISTORY, YOU’RE NOT discusses how to: • Avoid “kiss of death” marriage counselors to determine if reconciliation is possible. • Find an affordable divorce lawyer who does not snort scornfully at the word “mediation.” • Survive the first, worst, year. • Deal with your adult or teen kids (who can be just as devastated as small children). • Get back to work or find a new career. (Age discrimination does not have to stop you.) • Use the Internet to date the Viagra generation. • Restore your self-esteem despite body parts that have succumbed to gravity. • Forgive the bastard (and yourself) and finally move on…and much more.

The best relationships often come after forty, when experience has taught us what kind of person suits us best, and we can love more wisely and kindly than we did at an earlier age. But when you are single in your 40s, 50s or 60s, how do you go about meeting a new partner? This book gives you the information and support you need to get out there and search actively for love. Interviews with couples and the authors' own experience show that it can be done, and their friendly guidance will encourage you on your way. Love Begins at 40 will show you how to: Prepare yourself, practically and emotionally, for dating again Plan a strategy that will sustain you until you meet the right partner Use internet dating dating, personal ads and introduction agencies Handle the feelings – both joyful and challenging – generated by a new relationship.

Forty Plus Years and Still Loving Marriage is a a collection of marriage narratives of Christian couples who have been married for 40 plus years and how they overcame the temptations of divorce through the embodiment of love, joy, peace, patience/long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance, which are known as the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23, KJV). Forty Plus Years and Still Loving Marriage will change the paradigm on how couples view marriage by building the case that divorce does not have to be the option. The narratives provided within each chapter, also answer specific questions and the exercises will be available to use at marriage conferences, retreats, counseling sessions, for individuals or couples. Forty Plus Years and Still Loving Marriage transcends social factors, race, gender and social class by revealing how the Fruit of the Spirit applies to all couples and is central to contributing to the sustaining a loving relationship. A unique characteristic is that each couple are African American and each have a passion to see young married couples succeed

This is a relationship book that works! If you're tired of blind dates, putting on an act to impress someone new, endlessly revising your on-line profile or that list of what you want in a partner, and your efforts are all to no avail, you may be sending the wrong signals. Take a good, long look at yourself and your personal history to find out what makes you tick. Explore, discover, and celebrate who you really are, then put yourself out there with confidence. Get the ball back in your court. The dating game is far less about finding the right person as becoming the right person. Based largely on their years of counseling both couples and individuals, and upon their own experiences, the authors' radical approach to marriage extends to uncovering the ten hidden beliefs and the past conditioning that can sabotage intimacy and block marital success. Instead of always trying to meet other's expectations, step forward as who you really are. Then you will attract people who can see and appreciate you, who compliment your qualities with theirs...people who are most likely to actually be your ideal mate.