You didn’t recover after 20 years?
You didn’t recover after 20 years?
Also, the divorce actually made me a little crazy in the following way: I don’t trust the government. I have a deep and sorta subconscious “background noise” attitude that if I build up any kind of wealth it will simply be taken from me. So my retirement plan is to own my real estate free and clear (I fought the background noise), have assets that can’t be tracked down by others, drastically reduce my cost of living, and go from there. It’s actually working out pretty well. We live very comfortably and enjoy a quite nice lifestyle that can easily be supported by SS alone if it actually came to that.
However, we are very healthy for our age thanks to genes, partly (my father just stopped playing in a softball league five years ago, and my wife’s father passed away last month, the first of our parents to die), I’ll be working and able to work for some time if necessary. and the work I do (IT) pays well.