Book Review: "Conquering the Rapids of Life"

• Getting beyond negative self-judgment and other impediments you may create that block your future.

• Learning how to approach your senior years with positive thoughts and not negative ones.

• Adapting to the changes you will face in both your relationships, physical health, sexual performance, identity, moods, and personal independence.

• Accepting the need to continue to be educated, to stay informed, and to plan ahead for your aging years.

At forty, one reaches the age of understanding; at fifty, the age of offering counsel; sixty is the beginning of older age; at seventy, one earns respect for having the bearing of wisdom; at eighty, one is recognized for having strength and determination. (Ethics of the Fathers, Chapter 5, Mishnah 23).

Chapters:

• The Whitewater Years Defined

• Monopause

• Other Female Health Problems

• When Man's Best Friend Lets Him Down

• Other Male Health Problems

• Empty-Nest Syndrome

• Psychological Boulders

• Rekindling Your Romance

• When the Relationship Turns Sour

• Other Pitfalls

• Better Health

• Grandparents 'R Us

• Ruth Westheimer and Pierre Lehu have an easy to read and understand writing style. The book has an extensive index.

  Two negatives:
  It seems a bit too slanted on blaming sexual problems for many other issues in a couple's life.
  She seems to put the responsibility for making things better in a relationship on the woman's shoulders.