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When couples discover conflicting interpretations of longevity philosophy affecting their future plans

My wife and I have been learning about Ikigai and other Japanese approaches to purposeful aging, but she's interpreting it as validation for working until she dies while I think it means finding meaning beyond career, and we're realizing we have fundamentally different visions of what a good long life looks like.

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What we've seen

Different understandings of cultural longevity concepts are revealing deeper disagreements about how to structure a life together.

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“Where Are You with Longevity traditions across cultures?”

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