What does your day look like in retirement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We get up around 6 am. We are both naturally morning people. What we do depends on the day. We go grocery shopping every Tuesday morning. I teach yoga on Mon/Wed/Fri mornings. We typically go to the gym together in the morning. Sometimes we go out to lunch. We play Pickleball on Tues/Thurs/Sat late afternoons. I am in a book club. We both volunteer at the hospital several days a week. We also play golf, kayak, hike, and sail. We travel some, but we both love to be at home. We spend time with our adult kids and our grandkids.

We are both 55. Still very healthy and active. I was worried retirement might be boring, but we stay really busy. The difference is, we get to decide what we do with our time.

I feel like 55 hardly counts as being retired. You are still super young.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get up around 6 am. We are both naturally morning people. What we do depends on the day. We go grocery shopping every Tuesday morning. I teach yoga on Mon/Wed/Fri mornings. We typically go to the gym together in the morning. Sometimes we go out to lunch. We play Pickleball on Tues/Thurs/Sat late afternoons. I am in a book club. We both volunteer at the hospital several days a week. We also play golf, kayak, hike, and sail. We travel some, but we both love to be at home. We spend time with our adult kids and our grandkids.

We are both 55. Still very healthy and active. I was worried retirement might be boring, but we stay really busy. The difference is, we get to decide what we do with our time.

I feel like 55 hardly counts as being retired. You are still super young.

Retirement isn't about age. It's about being comfortable enough that you don't have to work because you did that already.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are retired. We wake up together each morning, some mornings we have sex, then coffee on the deck. We work out together every day and do various chores around the house. Sometimes we have sex in the afternoon after our workout and lunch.

We take a lot of classes, walk and hike a lot, spend time with our grandkids, and we’ve started to travel a bit as Covid eases and intend to travel a lot more in the coming years. We really enjoy being together and it is like a second honeymoon for us. The sacrifices of our working years have definitely been worthwhile in our estimation.

That is an odd detail to include.

I don’t think it’s odd at all. This is what the couple does. Sex can be important to a couple. My feeling is that over the course of a marriage and a lifetime, sex deepens and tightens a relationship. It can be one part of the web that holds couples closely together. Sex can be good physically and emotionally. The fact that the poster mentions it seems to show an existing closeness (maybe even a certain friskiness as the couple ages…good for them!). I would think that every loving couple aspires to an intellectual, an emotional and, if their health allows, a physical connection. This makes very good sense to me and I admit I hope I, too, can be there someday.

You forgot to mention you both take Viagra

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are retired. We wake up together each morning, some mornings we have sex, then coffee on the deck. We work out together every day and do various chores around the house. Sometimes we have sex in the afternoon after our workout and lunch.

We take a lot of classes, walk and hike a lot, spend time with our grandkids, and we’ve started to travel a bit as Covid eases and intend to travel a lot more in the coming years. We really enjoy being together and it is like a second honeymoon for us. The sacrifices of our working years have definitely been worthwhile in our estimation.

That is an odd detail to include.

I don’t think it’s odd at all. This is what the couple does. Sex can be important to a couple. My feeling is that over the course of a marriage and a lifetime, sex deepens and tightens a relationship. It can be one part of the web that holds couples closely together. Sex can be good physically and emotionally. The fact that the poster mentions it seems to show an existing closeness (maybe even a certain friskiness as the couple ages…good for them!). I would think that every loving couple aspires to an intellectual, an emotional and, if their health allows, a physical connection. This makes very good sense to me and I admit I hope I, too, can be there someday.

You forgot to mention you both take Viagra

No need for viagra for either of us. I didn’t realize they make it for women also now.

I’m surprised people are commenting on the sex part of what I wrote above. Isn’t retirement for doing the things you didn’t have as much time for when you were working? We spend a lot of time walking, reading, gardening, doing a few sports we like, taking classes, going to museums, having coffee together in the mornings, and yes, having sex together- all things we have more time for now than when we were working.

Because of work, we spent a lot of time apart during our working lives and now we are happy to be together every day, and every night, too. We love each other and still love being together, even after 35+ years. I really don’t think it’s all that unusual for a long time married couple to enjoy being together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get up around 6 am. We are both naturally morning people. What we do depends on the day. We go grocery shopping every Tuesday morning. I teach yoga on Mon/Wed/Fri mornings. We typically go to the gym together in the morning. Sometimes we go out to lunch. We play Pickleball on Tues/Thurs/Sat late afternoons. I am in a book club. We both volunteer at the hospital several days a week. We also play golf, kayak, hike, and sail. We travel some, but we both love to be at home. We spend time with our adult kids and our grandkids.

We are both 55. Still very healthy and active. I was worried retirement might be boring, but we stay really busy. The difference is, we get to decide what we do with our time.

I feel like 55 hardly counts as being retired. You are still super young.

Retirement isn't about age. It's about being comfortable enough that you don't have to work because you did that already.

Yes, I'm not sure what age has to do with it. I doubt being 55 and retiree would be much different than at 65 or 70. Maybe in one's 80s, ok, but retirement is retirement.