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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Retire friend told me he wished his wife would retire too. She was still working and in a job that reguired her to do alot of traveling.with him. I ask, "what would you want to do if you were both retired?" He said, "travel".

It had never occured to him that he could probably find some trips of hers to tag along. That he would want to go on. Be the tag along spouse, on her business trips. Extend the trip some, add-in some other locations, do some sightseeing on your own. Make it work.[/quote]

DH and i are going to do this. I stepped away from work for 7 years because of family demands. Our youngest just graduated from HS and we agreed I would not look for a gig as it would probably be hard to find one with the flexibility that DH has now. I am going to join him for some trips, especially ones where we have family/friends.

I saw a variation of this with friends of ours - no kids and a country house they go to every weekend. She was let go of an executive job she had held for years when in her early 60s. And she decided not to look for a new gig and didn't need to for finances. Her DH, who still had about 8 years of work left before he wanted to consider retiring, ended up taking a job where he was out of town M-TH. Sadly she wouldn't budge on their weekend arrangement. He even suggested that she spend one weekend a month at his new job site, one weekend in their city house, and two weekends in the country. She refused. He kept the job up for two years, but the travel got to him and he quit. I realized that if I were in similar circumstances, I would want to make it work, even if it meant changing up my routine.[/quote]

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