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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, you need to start meeting and dating actual women before you invent the perfect one in your mind. You have been so focused on your goals that you’ve lost touch with the real world.

Find love first, then find the financial planning and life arrangements that work for you *together.* It’s a fools errand to think you have it all figured out by yourself and then demand that a self-made millionaire waltz in and agree to do everything your way. [/quote]

I agree there would be some merit in doing this.  That’s what prompted the original post in the first place – I’m starting to get a little bit restless.

However, I’m at the point where I’m really starting to see the benefits of compound interest – I can probably go from $1.1 million now to $2.3 million in five years. Assuming 10% growth (which obviously never happens linearly) and $75,000 in contributions per year (in Roth and taxable accounts, not pre-tax), I’ll be at $2 million in four years.  I was giving myself an extra year just to be on the safe side.

From the point of view of retiring, there’s a world of difference between $2.3 million and $1.1 million, so I’m loathe to do anything to potentially interrupt the compounding at this point.  It’s only 4-5 years and then I’ll have the rest of my life back.  It seems reckless to interrupt the compounding at this point.[/quote]

Are you saying dating is an interruption to your compounding?

OP - is it possible, and I ask this without judgment, that you are simply happy being single? You prefer the fantasy of a relationship to actually interacting with human women?[/quote]

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