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• Unpleasant Retirement Surprises

  Published: May 21, 2008, 2:33 pm

  Tags: Culture, Family, Retirement, Early Retirement, Retirement Poverty, Retirement Surprises, Retirement Tools

  My Unpleasant Retirement Surprises during my first months of early retirement included Poverty, Role Reversal, Loneliness, Resentment, and Victimization. Some of these are not fun to share, particularly with my spouse, and while I am writing this for others who may be contemplating “early” retirement (defined as

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• Retirement Surprise Three - Loneliness

  Published: May 23, 2008, 7:24 am

  Tags: Culture, Family, Retirement, Early Retirement, Loneliness, Retired And Lonely, Retirement Surprises

  Retirement Surprise Three - Loneliness is something I have never before experienced in my entire life. I’m not sure what that says about my previous life-perhaps I have been privileged, fortunate, sheltered, loved or oblivious-but I cannot recall ever having these feelings of isolation, emptiness, aloneness. I know there

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• Retirement Surprise FOUR - Resentment

  Published: May 24, 2008, 4:23 pm

  Tags: Culture, Family, Retirement, Early Retirement, Resentment, Retired And Resented, Retirement Surprises

  but good wishes at my early retirement. One has now followed me into retirement; she is two years younger, so technically, she beat me into retirement. Another has talked of retirement in the next two years; she is five years younger than I am so would also, technically, beat me into retirement. All three of us are fortunate to have

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• Retirement Surprise FIVE - Victimization

  Published: May 25, 2008, 3:24 pm

  Tags: Culture, Family, Retirement, Early Retirement, Retired And Victimized, Retirement Surprises, Victimization

  As Retirement Surprise Five - Victimization is probably a misnomer. It is the idea that somehow I make myself become a victim. This is very self-centered; very much “all about me.” My wife loves to say that I make it all about me. And I hear it in various versions all the time on television as well. It goes something

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• Joys of Retirement - Detachment from Job

  Published: May 31, 2008, 10:17 am

  Tags: Joys Of Retirement, Enjoyment, Joy, Life, Planning For Retirement, Retirement, Retirement Surprises

  As a Joy of Retirement, Detachment from the Job is more than just relief from the daily 8-to-5 grind. It is RELEASE! During my final years of employment it seemed that I made an extra effort to get involved in everybody else’s business. Every political intrigue, zoning flap, and personal feud was my daily fuel. I had

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