Hi Brett,
Just came across your post and hope you are coping as well as you can.
I am 56 and still working but just plodding along out of sheer necessity. I work from home and for my own business so I do what I need to. I couldn’t get out of bed and drive to the office 5 days a week like I used to.
Nobody tells you that it gets hard and often harder. Both my parents were retired by 50 so I had no one to talk about working later in life. It’s just expected of us.
Loosing parents is always hard but it must have been especially difficult for you.
When I lost my dad I was 43 but I realised then that I didn’t have him to call if I needed help with something. He was a very important part of my life. My mother is still alive but I cut contact with her following my dad’s passing. She’s a narcissistic drama queen and she sucks the life out of me. But she still has my brother and sister to look out for her. She and I have never been close.
My only family are my children and I keep going for them in the hope that this mid life exhaustion will pass and I can retire to be a grandma one day. Something to look forward to.
I never had a work life balance and I have worked myself to a point of exhaustion already. It would be great if you could just retire when you clocked up and days and hours rather than by age..
Best wishes, Fiatlux 🙏🏼
