The Third Age Foundation delivers programs exclusively tailored to fostering healthy relationships in the Third Age. Healthy relationships are vital to a spirited and joyful aging process. Each partner needs to understand the changes that their Third Age brings. Third Age Foundation programs help you understand the issues you face in this time of life and how to resolve them within that framework. We also have programs for singles to learn what to look for in a new relationship, how to form a bond that is not crippled by memories and conditions of the past.
As in all our Third Age work, we find that forgiveness is often a key starting place for opening your heart and quieting ghosts of the past that steal your energy. However, we are also very much focused on the positive aspects of the relationship, building on strengths, finding true happiness and putting together both separate and common dreams for the couple. Our method is heavily influence by John Gottman's work at the University of Washington. However, we tailor our work to couples who are in the Third Age.
We work to diminish the predictive factors of poor relationships such as contempt and defensiveness, and amplify those factors that increase affection and genuine expressions of care and appreciation.
A healthy relationship, like anything else that is healthy, requires nurturing. Take a perfectly healthy plant, stop caring for it on an ongoing basis and it will die. The same will happen to a relationship when it is not tended to. For couples, as it is in every aspect of a happy and healthy Third Age, continued emotional and spiritual development is the cornerstone of the nurturing process. You cannot rise to a higher level if you are held down with ghosts of the past, prisons of the present and fears of the future.
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