Top 4 signs that your retirement is not going all that well

Everybody has his/her own retirement. There is no “best” and no “worst” retirement experience. However there can be signs that things are not going well for YOU.

What might they be? Here is a short list of warning signs to be aware of:

1.   Your partner/husband/wife keeps giving you routine tasks to carry out; which you resent: because you feel your retirement space is not respected. As examples:

-Hanging pictures on the wall;

-Weeding the garden;

2.   When asked about your purpose, meaning and activities in your retired life you frequently refer back to your working life, using pronouns such as “we” and “us”.

3.   You observe that your retired friends seem to have a clearly defined meaning and purpose in their lives. You wonder what YOU are lacking.

4.   You overhear your adult children talking about how concerned they are for you because YOU don’t seem to be very motivated or purposeful. They talk about how they are worried about your well-being.

Retirement: You won’t know what it is like until you get there.