Sometimes retirement planning feels a lot like couples therapy. Ellen: “Harvey is retired now. We’re OK financially. I don’t want our new life to be just a later version of our old one. We worked too long and too hard to settle now. I want you to push Harvey into understanding this.” Harvey: “Ellen has grown bored the last few…
If you are in a relationship, no matter how long you have been together or how well (or not) you get along, one of you will be alone someday. It happens that this is top of mind at the moment. My new possible solution: Line Dancing. Really? Line Dancing? Yes. It came to me when my wife, Brown Eyes, said…
I recently gave a speech about life planning, talking about how it’s best to start that plan with being real about where you actually are now. One of the audience members objected, saying that she needed to imagine future goals as a motivator. As in carrot, not stick. I understand. But it’s been my experience that when my clients begin…
My youngest grandchildren (twins, Madison and Robert) will be four in May. They’re in constant motion. Trying, testing, challenging, asserting themselves. I have no problem giving them full permission to learn and explore. Great 6-year-olds don’t start at 5. If they are lucky – and with assistance from all of us – they have been on the Developmental Runway since…
I had that dream again. I was stark naked in the lobby of a hotel with fully clothed people milling around me, and I couldn’t find my clothes or a way to call my wife to come get me. I’ve had that dream twice before, first when I was in graduate school and totally immersed in writing my dissertation, and…
There was a time, not so long ago, when retirement meant the same thing to everyone. This is how it went: 1. You and your long-time employer had made mutual investments in your retirement fund and provided lifelong health insurance. 2. You were around 65. 3. You collected your retirement gift at a celebratory lunch or dinner thrown by…
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