cardude
Full time employment: Posting here.
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- Feb 21, 2006
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We have planned for it for years, and we have enough money to do it, but the wife just can't get excited about the idea of me hanging it up.
I'm 42, and the kids are 8 and 10, and we're living in a nice new house in a decent town. I'm miserable at my job and need to do something before I lose it, but she can't get over the lost income.
What do I need to do to get her excited about the ER plan again? I am really ready for an adventure, but she's seems to be stuck in her very comfortable "mom" lifestyle and doesn't want to leave it. When I ask her about all the cool things we had planned to do, now she counters with "but what about the kids?", and "I think it will hurt them to take them out of their schools" etc, etc.
In hindsight, I think I focused too much on the money and not enough on keeping her excited about the plan. Or, maybe it was just MY plan all along, and she was just humoring me?
I'm 42, and the kids are 8 and 10, and we're living in a nice new house in a decent town. I'm miserable at my job and need to do something before I lose it, but she can't get over the lost income.
What do I need to do to get her excited about the ER plan again? I am really ready for an adventure, but she's seems to be stuck in her very comfortable "mom" lifestyle and doesn't want to leave it. When I ask her about all the cool things we had planned to do, now she counters with "but what about the kids?", and "I think it will hurt them to take them out of their schools" etc, etc.
In hindsight, I think I focused too much on the money and not enough on keeping her excited about the plan. Or, maybe it was just MY plan all along, and she was just humoring me?