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The Next Chapter: Surviving Gray Divorce and Starting Over After 50 — How to Rebuild Your Life, Your Finances, and Your Sense of Self After the End of ... (Solid Ground: Surviving Divorce & Breakup) - Softcover

Book 10 of 20: Solid Ground: Surviving Divorce & Breakup

Barclay, Norah

 
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Synopsis

You built a life together over decades — and now, somehow, you’re starting over. Later in life. Alone. If you’re grieving the end of a long marriage and quietly afraid it’s too late, this book is for you.

The end of a long marriage is a loss unlike any other. You’re not just grieving a partner — you’re grieving a shared lifetime: decades of history, an identity built around “we,” and the entire future you thought you’d have. And you’re facing the daunting question of how to rebuild a life at a stage when you thought the building was long finished.

You are far from alone. Roughly four in ten divorces now involve people over fifty — it’s called “gray divorce” — and a great many people have gone on not just to survive it, but to build later years that are genuinely good, full, and free. The Next Chapter is a warm, honest companion for that journey.

Inside, with the steadiness of a trusted friend, you’ll find help with:

  • The unique grief of losing a shared lifetime — and the imagined future you’d planned
  • The disorienting question of “who am I now?” after decades as half of a couple
  • Telling your adult children — and helping them when they struggle
  • The later-life realities: untangling a lifetime, finances, health, and starting over (with guidance to the right professionals)
  • The loneliness of starting over — and rebuilding your social world
  • Rediscovering yourself and building a life of your own
  • Finding new purpose, companionship, and peace with the past

Honest about how hard this is, and full of genuine hope. (Note: this book offers support and orientation, not legal, financial, or medical advice, and points you to the professional help you deserve.)

It is not too late — not for happiness, purpose, connection, or a genuinely good life.

Your next chapter is unwritten. It can be a good one.

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