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Your Husband’s Retirement: Survive or Thrive?

North Kingstown, RI – May 13, 2014: Have you started thinking about what life will be like when your husband retires? Are you worried your relationship may not be able to handle this fundamental transition? Join us Thursday, June 5, 2014 at 5:30 p.m. at The Hive RI and learn how to not only survive, but thrive while adjusting to retirement!

Enjoy refreshments as Nora Hall, local author of Survive Your Husband’s Retirement, offers tips and strategies to effectively strengthen and grow your relationship in the often challenging initial stages of retirement.

This workshop for women and couple’s helps individuals uncover their expectations for retirement and discover how to make them a reality:

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• Say Yes to A Joyful Retirement – Understand the different expectations husbands and wives have about retirement, common emotional challenges and the value of compromise.

• Build on Your Strengths – Identify your individual needs and strengths and learn how to build on them to form a stronger bond. Learn what you need to make the retirement transition joyful.

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• Positive Thinking Creates Miracles – Learn how to improve your marriage through laughter, compromise, love, and positive thinking.

Nora guides attendees to look at retirement differently and gives insights into adapting to the changes that often occur in the relationship during this time. Participants will start to develop a new appreciation for this stage of life and its effect on relationships and will share their thoughts on turning the hopes and goals of retirement into reality!

Join us Thursday, June 5th at 5:30 p.m. at The Hive RI, 650 Ten Rod Road in North Kingstown, for this exciting and informative event, where we will also be raffling off gift cards from local restaurants!

Cost: $45 per person (includes a book), $35 per person when you bring a friend!

For RSVPs and/or Questions please contact Tuni Schartner @ 401-295-8372

Based in the historic Lafayette Mill complex in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, The Hive coworking space provides inexpensive working space, conference and meeting areas and professional amenities such as copy machines, printers as well as high speed internet. Local artists, businesspeople, lawyers, engineers and other professionals come together at The Hive to work independently, but not alone. The Hive is open from 9-5, Monday through Friday, welcomes walk-ins and offers affordable rates for daily, weekly and monthly use. The Hive hosts weekly lunchtime networking events and is also available.

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