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When Growing Up Poor Makes Retirement Comfort Feel Wrong

I have enough money to retire comfortably but I grew up poor and I cannot shake the feeling that wanting comfort makes me weak or spoiled somehow.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Early messages about virtue and suffering conflict with later capacity for ease and security.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money in your 50s and 60s — the pre-retirement decade?”

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