Spousal Incompatibility in Retirement? Try These Ideas!
Category: Family and Retirement
November 2, 2022 – Thanks to everyone who took the time to take last week’s instant poll on spousal compatibility around retirement decisions. The good news is that the vast majority of you all are either extremely compatible (25%) or mostly compatible (41%). Luckily, only a handful are extremely incompatible. Many of you added insightful comments to explain your particular situation, and offer lessons learned to others. We have incorporated some of those into this article, along with ones from previous articles. (see Further Reading below to see all of them).
The worst situation
The biggest problem is when two partners disagree on major issues about retirement. If they can’t agree on when and where to retire, how much money to spend, how close to family, or what is the right climate, somebody might end up extremely unhappy. Let’s hope that didn’t happen to you. But if it does, here are some tips on how to make the best of it, along with some of the common pickles that couples find themselves in.
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Comments on "Spousal Incompatibility in Retirement? Try These Ideas!"
John Brady says:
I love all these suggestions. My spouse and I are fortunately very compatible about our retirement preferences. We both wanted to have warm winters so we go to Florida. Our grandchildren are in California which is unfortunate for everybody, but we agree we are not moving there. Too crowded and who knows, the kids might move East. We have had our differences in other areas of life of course, and it has taken me about a lifetime to realize that talking the issues out in the open, early, is the best course to find a happy medium.