Finding love the second time around can be exiting, challenging, frightening, joyous and full of promise. Remarriage after a divorce or the ending of another long term relationship can have different challenges that come hand in hand with the prior heart experiences still held in your memory. You seek out different things in a mate. You seek out some of the same things you had in happier times in your previous relationship. Most importantly, you are willing to try again with this person because of who they are to you. For some of us who are no longer in our teens and early twenties, we did not rely so heavily this time on fleeting good looks, slim figures, taunt muscles, inexperience with our emotions or popularity to help us choose a mate. Understanding that love, no matter how much you seek after it, how powerfully it pulls your heart strings, is often not strong enough to conquer nor overcome every emotional or relationship related issue. You may have already learned this lesson the hard way. Some relationships fail to be long term with or without marriage certificates. Hopeful promises were made and future dreams shared before they ended with some promises that could not be kept or dreams that could be fully realized. These short thought-provoking questions were created to help you as a couple talk through the issues that, if left unchecked, could destroy your long awaited relationship. Listening is the key. Do not get distracted formulating your response while the other person is still talking. You cannot listen and formulate a response at the same time. There is no magic scoring key at the end that you can flip to first and see how compatible you are. The only scorecard is the mental one you create from the deeper understanding I hope this book helps you to have as a takeaway while you enrich your knowledge about your partner.
About the Author: Amy Rose Herrick launched Money With Amy in late 2014 to enable her to share her wisdom and expertise acquired in her 30-plus years of experience in the financial services field. She is a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC). Beginning in 1991 she expanded her professional expertise and ongoing licensing to include earning the title of Insurance Agent for Life, Disability, Critical Illness, Long Term Care and Air Ambulance coverage's. During the same time she completed a career change from corporate clients to exclusively serving the needs of individual and a small business based clientele. Not satisfied that she had all the planning tools needed to advise clients to the best of her ability in changing economic climates, in the early 90's she took the necessary training and ongoing educational hours necessary to secure her ability as a tax professional too. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications. Amy accepted short term assignments for regular newspaper columns on specific items of public interest now and then in addition to her private practice demands. She was selected to contribute two chapters to books that were collaborative efforts between multiple professionals in 2007 and 2010. In addition to her writing and other business activities, Amy is a dynamic public speaker who is able to engage with her audiences by breaking down complex concepts into manageable ideas that are easily understood using custom designed presentations. Amy's planning expertise extends into situations that encompass corporate, individual and small business financial issues related to cash flow, debt structure, income tax reduction, charitable giving, business succession plans, mental or physical incapacity at any age, Life Insurance Settlements for unwanted policies and overall estate planning. Amy and her family relocated from the Midwest to call the beautiful island of St. Croix their family home in early 2011. Amy continues to serve a wide range of clients on the U.S. mainland coast to coast as well as clients residing in the US Virgin Islands. In her free time she enjoys traveling, photography and she has a flair for art.