...I expect to retire very early next year, and my wife plans on hanging it up a year or so later (she's got a decent shot at a pretty nice separation package when she hits a certain age + service sum). At any rate, I've tried to explain SWR's and portfolio diversification, etc, etc, for some time now but she's got precious little interest, and trusts me to look after trivial matters such as these.
I didn't feel too comfortable with that, and wanted her to have a fair understanding of "the plan" before hanging it up at work, so I took a bit of 3:1 time and wrote up the following paper and had her read it during a recent car trip. As noted a the end of my FIRE Manifesto, I still owe her a section on health coverage.
I figured I'd share this with you folks in case any of you (or your SO's) might benefit from it, and I'd also welcome any thoughts, comments, critique...
http://www.geocities.com/gnobsfolder/RE_plan.doc
...<edit>or here if that doesn't work:
http://gnobility.com/MTTF/RE_plan.doc
Cb
I didn't feel too comfortable with that, and wanted her to have a fair understanding of "the plan" before hanging it up at work, so I took a bit of 3:1 time and wrote up the following paper and had her read it during a recent car trip. As noted a the end of my FIRE Manifesto, I still owe her a section on health coverage.
I figured I'd share this with you folks in case any of you (or your SO's) might benefit from it, and I'd also welcome any thoughts, comments, critique...
http://www.geocities.com/gnobsfolder/RE_plan.doc
...<edit>or here if that doesn't work:
http://gnobility.com/MTTF/RE_plan.doc
Cb