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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are you worried about?[/quote]

That he won't find any hobbies or have much social interaction when I'm away for my job. Right now he's not showing any interest in joining social groups, going to classes, volunteering, making new friends outside work.

That he'll turn into a couch potato and become physically unfit.

[b]That once I retire in 8 or 10 years he will feel 'too old' to start doing things together like travelling, hiking, etc. If I retire in 10 years he will be 73.[/b]

[b]That we'll miss out on doing things together while we're still relatively young (which is now). The time for him to do all the things he didn't have time for when he was working is NOW. Life is too short.

That his health could decline and we won't be able to do fun things together once I retire.[/b] [/quote]

My DH and I are 13 years apart; I'm 52 and he's 65. He hasn't retired yet, but likely will in the next 3-4 years or so. All of these concerns you enumerate just kind of come with the territory with the age difference. We try to take time off from work and take a major trip at least once a year now. We try to hike on the weekends whenever there is a long weekend, etc. This is made easier by the fact that I have a flexible job. But for us -- we are doing as much as we can now even though both of us still work. We aren't saving it all for retirement. [/quote]

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