We were having the end of the week relaxing glass of wine and my wife was telling me that this year she is thinking of packing it up at work and maybe start planning something different for a early retirement. She added that a few years later that I could probably start doing the same if I want and if nature takes it part and we remain healthy and the kids leave the nest as they start there own journeys, we could slow things down ourselves. I could see she was thinking about it and then she said, that's when Maria is going to evolve, that's when I'm going to have more time on my hands and the real Maria is going to come out.
I told her it's nice to look ahead but I can't plan that, things change in life, I told her I had 5 people at work early retire last year and 4 of them are back to work not even after a year. When they came back I had to ask why would they want to come back to work for, are they crazy. One told me he retired a few years earlier then his wife because he wanted to renovate his house, but he told me not to get him wrong he has 5 grandchildren and he loves them to death. His kids started to relying on him to pick them up at school and bringing them to school etc, etc, long story short he couldn't say no to his children and a year went by and he didn't even start his renovation and was disappointed his children were selfish but he did enjoy spending time with his grandchildren but that wasn't why he retired early so he decided to go back to work.
Another one his son moved in with them temporary while they were building there new home, his son lost his job and the over spending and now the house is in stand still until he gets his life back in order, but in the mean time he has his sons family of 5 packed in his home and it looks like he's not going anywhere for a long time. So he came back to work to get back his sanity.
Another women's daughter was in University away from home and she graduated and couldn't find a job there, so she came home but not alone with a boyfriend, they both didn't have a job and they were in her face all day and she came back to work to get some space from them.
I told my wife we don't know what twist and turns our life's our going to take, I told her our siblings are useless and more then likely we are going to be our parents caregivers and what's going on now doesn't mean its going to be the same a few years from now.
I do look forward to early retirement but I don't include Maria in the plans and just like now, I will deal with Maria on a day to day basis, but it was disappointing when my co- workers came back to work but i do read a lot of happy retirement stories here.
If anyone here wants to share, maybe you can wright me a good or a bad retirement story to give me some idea what to look forward to, or not. Lol