My spouse wants us to downsize our house now to free up equity for retirement, but I'm not ready to give up the home where we raised our kids, and we're stuck because neither of us is completely wrong but we can't both be right. We've been having the same circular conversation for six months and getting nowhere.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are trying to balance practical financial needs with emotional attachments that can't be quantified.
“Where Are You with Money in your 50s and 60s — the pre-retirement decade?”
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