FinanceDude
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I guess I'm having a mid-life crisis: I have an uncontrollable urge to RETIRE!!!
I was wondering when someone was going to say that most of our mid-life crisis's was early retirement.
I planned DH's midlife crisis for him--when he turned 40. We quit work and went sailing for 3 months. It seemed easier than waiting around to see what he'd come up with on his own!
He's now off on a year-45 sojourn for a week with old friends all hitting the same milestone. Hiking to the highest mountain in Costa Rica.
All good with me, heck, I'm planning my 40th birthday party and it is still almost 3 years away!
I want in on that motorhome race--but I've gotta have a pretty good head start--like a couple of states!
You married 8 years older, and women live 7 years longer than men..............sounds like a FIRE plan to me!!
The stereotypical symbols of the male midlife crisis are usually the job crisis, desire for other women (sexual/ego inflation), and new stuff, like the proverbial red sports car (more ego inflation?). What are the symbols for women, I wonder? Having never gone through this, I'm curious. I'd imagine that some women, like men, have a midlife crisis based on sudden fear that life is passing them by. They have the stereotypical affair or get into image inhancement, since a woman's value is so often based on her appearance.
For me that was especially true when my child grew up and I was freed of some of the motherly responsibilities of earlier years.
In my case FIRE will closely coincide with the youngest being on his own....who would have "thunk" it??
I had my mid-life crisis at 49. Pretty classic -- trade in a perfectly good car for a brand new two-seater convertible that you don't really want to take out on snowy roads in Colorado. It was precipitated by one of those medical diagnoses that reminds you that time is passing.
But as a friend of mine pointed out, since I'm not likely to make it to 98, "mid-life" might not be so accurate.
Coach