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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm sorry but c'mon -- you married a much older man, and he retired at a reasonable age.  He is who he is, and you should have seen this coming.  Don't start nagging or attempting to control him about what he should or shouldn't be doing in HIS retirement years.  And, yes, in 8 or 10 years from now when you're ready to retire he probably won't be ready/willing to drop everything and join in with you in "all the fun."  He'll be in his friggin 70s with a decade worth of retirement already behind him.

Let the man live his own life the way he sees fit.   [/quote]

Yeah. OP here.

We don't know what the future will bring. I hope my husband doesn't do what his late father, my FIL, did. FIL was a successful businessman who worked until his early 70s. After he retired he had little interest in the world, and as years passed he didn't want to leave his house anymore, he complained about things in general (mainly to my MIL) and longed for the achievements and successes of his younger years.[/quote]

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