“I mean, are you kidding? What’s not to love about retirement? No more daily grind, no more conforming to someone else’s schedule; time to do the things I want to do, wear the clothes I want to wear… oh yes…. Retirement will be brilliant. Can’t wait.”
Is this how you view retirement? Is this how you USED to view retirement… before you retired?
The problem is, like so many things in life, the idea and the reality don’t always match up and it seems that this is more commonly the case for men than it is for women when it comes to ‘successful retirement’.
The perceptions and expectations of retirement for men was the topic of Dr Anthony Brown’s PhD, completed in 2014.
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