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When retirement expectations don't match reality

My wife and I are both retired and keep making grand plans for projects and travel but then we don't follow through and we're both disappointed but neither of us wants to admit that maybe we just want to do nothing for a while.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The cultural pressure to fill retirement meaningfully can obscure the deeper need to simply rest and be.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Retirement and the gift of unstructured time?”

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