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How to balance saving for tomorrow with living today across cultural differences

My German efficiency made me save aggressively for retirement, but my Brazilian wife wants to enjoy life now and thinks I am wasting our present for an uncertain future.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The fear of not having enough wars with the fear of not having lived enough, and both fears feel equally valid.

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