Watch Money is Love
Episode 5
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Anger, hurt feelings, greed, and simmering resentment all lurk within the Pandora's box labeled "money." And in most families, no one wants to talk about it. Life (Part 2) host Robert Lipsyte opens the discussion of this hot potato subject with his own story: His 100-year-old father willed the family home to Robert's sister. It wasn't the financial stuff that bothered him, but his feelings were hurt. .
So why does money feel like love? Lipsyte dives into a frank talk with the experts. Social psychologist Jane Adams, author of When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us, explains why families would rather discuss anything other than money. Ross Levin, a financial planner and columnist for The Minneapolis Star Tribune, offers techniques for opening a dialogue on seemingly impossible topics like family wills. And public radio "personal finance guru" Chris Farrell explains that the "Boomer generation does not want to appear greedy." For Farrell, the tension isn't really about the money. "Your parents' gardening tools" are more important to you than their bank account, he says. With LP2's help, you may finally sit down for that conversation about money with your kids or parents.
Next, Lipsyte talks with Marianne Legato, M.D., author of Why Men Die First, and explores the different ways that women and men age. A professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and founder of Columbia's Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine, Dr. Legato tells Boomers what they need to know about the facts of life for the second half, including who loses their sex drive first and when the sexes start looking alike.
A writer on how to not become a parody of yourself...
Finally, Life Part 2's co-executive producer Ron Fried-who writes novels when he's not producing TV shows-explains why middle age is one of the most difficult fronts in his lifelong war against becoming a cliché.
- Season 2
- Watch Boomer Marriage
- Watch Generation Gaps
- Watch Caregiving
- Watch Dancing with Doctors
- Watch Money is Love
- Watch Fighting Ageism
- Watch Plastic Surgery
- Watch Boomer Dating
- Watch Spirituality and Aging
- Watch the Science of Happiness
- Watch The New Face of Alzheimer’s
- Brain Exercise
- Mechanics of Aging
- Controlling the Boomer Belly
- Encore Careers
- Purpose Prize Winners
- Should I Stay or Should I Go
- Ethnicity, Race & Aging
- Boomer Grandparenting
- Survive and Thrive
- Season 1




Comments
Growing Old alone
this segment has really touched me, this year I just lost the last remaining members of my family, all of the issues discussed are real and if only I had taken another career path I could understand better what it is now to be alone, I never ever believed I would be the last of my family, after serving in the military I just though I would never come home . . . of course I personally feel that I too could have written on this subject, just not as eloquently nor as concise and to the point as your guess shared their views . . .
Thank you for your service,
Robert
an excellent episode
I agree wholeheartedly and then some. http://twitter.com/jedb
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