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Not only are my husband and I unconventional in the fact that he drives truck cross country for a living, but I was thinking the other day just how different we are from "the norm".
We married in 1990, his second and my first. In 1991 I could no longer stomach the state we were living in. So we moved, placed most everything we owned in storage and drive truck cross country. So we traveled early on instead of waiting for retirement years.
He is 12 years my senior , yet I'm the one who has retired. I was tired of him getting home and I was stuck working.
Considering the whole Covid thing has changed life as we knew it and civil unrest last summer, I'm glad our time line was different from typical. I was blessed to see Our Country before an attempt on our history was/is being erased and we now spend quality time together when he is home.
My husband and I retired at 52. Completely self financed and in quite low salaries. We just lived very frugally and invested well. When it got to the point that we were earning more from our investments than our salaries, we quit working, five years earlier than planned. Thus was a good thing since my husband died at 66. If we had worked until 65, he would have been retired for less than a year. This way he got to have almost fifteen years of retirement.
Didn’t have kids, so another thing not the norm.
And because we lived so frugally, we actually upsized upon retirement going from 1000;square feet to 1700.
By the way, OP, I love your tag line that normal is around the corner.
We also retired early and my DH and I drove cross country many times. We usually took 3-4 months on each trips. I can tell you that spending 24/7 travelling with someone, the majority of those hours sitting side-by-side in a car, really tells you a lot about your relationship. To me, the hallmark of a good relationship are "comfortable silences".
I would do it again in a heartbeat if DH were still here and had a heartbeat.
Not only are my husband and I unconventional in the fact that he drives truck cross country for a living, but I was thinking the other day just how different we are from "the norm".
We married in 1990, his second and my first. In 1991 I could no longer stomach the state we were living in. So we moved, placed most everything we owned in storage and drive truck cross country. So we traveled early on instead of waiting for retirement years.
He is 12 years my senior , yet I'm the one who has retired. I was tired of him getting home and I was stuck working.
Considering the whole Covid thing has changed life as we knew it and civil unrest last summer, I'm glad our time line was different from typical. I was blessed to see Our Country before an attempt on our history was/is being erased and we now spend quality time together when he is home.
How are you different from "the norm"?
What American history is being erased?
None of the stuff you mentioned is really different. Just timing differences.
Tell me quick what cleaner they used, I've got some stubborn hard water stains!
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Not only are my husband and I unconventional in the fact that he drives truck cross country for a living, but I was thinking the other day just how different we are from "the norm".
We married in 1990, his second and my first. In 1991 I could no longer stomach the state we were living in. So we moved, placed most everything we owned in storage and drive truck cross country. So we traveled early on instead of waiting for retirement years.
He is 12 years my senior , yet I'm the one who has retired. I was tired of him getting home and I was stuck working.
Considering the whole Covid thing has changed life as we knew it and civil unrest last summer, I'm glad our time line was different from typical. I was blessed to see Our Country before an attempt on our history was/is being erased and we now spend quality time together when he is home.
How are you different from "the norm"?
I am in a 12 year relationship and am 9.5 years older than he is and I make nearly twice what he does. I will be retiring soon, he will probably never retire. We live an hour apart with no plans to ever marry.
We retired in our 50s, and have no kids. He was almost 50 when we married (his first marriage). He worked for one employer from age 18 to retirement. I'm a female AF veteran. We have more income in retirement than we did when we were both working. Other than that, we're pretty much the norm.
Married at 50, retired overseas to live frugally on the ocean, no kids, no car. We live with no mail, no deliveries and no phone service except online. Shopping other than groceries is 2 hours away.
We can go to Europe (when there's not covid) even on our low-low SS/income.
So there's some deviations from the "norm".
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