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When family members disagree about investment strategy across generations

My adult children think I should be investing more aggressively for retirement but I lived through 2008 and lost a lot of money and they don't understand why I'm being so conservative and I can't make them understand how that felt.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Different life experiences have created incompatible views of financial risk, and the inability to bridge this gap is creating isolation and misunderstanding.

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