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When informal retirement groups become rigid obligations

Our neighborhood group of retired friends meets for coffee every morning but it's becoming this obligation where no one wants to hurt feelings by skipping and we've accidentally created the very structure we all retired to escape from.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Even the most natural gatherings can calcify into the very constraints that retirement was meant to dissolve.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.