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How to adjust when retirement changes your marriage

My husband retired last year and I realized I do not know how to be around him all the time and I feel guilty for missing my solitude.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intimacy requires both togetherness and separateness, and too much of either can suffocate love.

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