Who was Confident in Their Retirement Stability?

[TailoredLinen]

I really think you have to understand your individual or couple dynamic well to judge what a retirement would look like. If you can not tell me what your monthly written in stone expenses consist of I have little faith you can survive the long haul. Retirement education is “out there” to be looked at and considered…but is worthless without understanding yourself. None of us can predict a future…but I can make stone soup for the foreseeable future to make emergent expenses doable…and that makes a difference.

This is very true the future is very hard to predict. It is hard to see what things will be like so far down the road and we often find ourselves in completely different situations than imagined. The best we can do is have our better half with us and prepare for the uncertain, and that requires appropriate cooperation from both people in the relationship.

 

[Knight]

We were!

We because my wife was the primary planner for early retirement at age 55. But as luck would have it retirement at age 54 was our reality.

What was unexpected, with what we planned for to last that amount keeps growing rather than diminishing.

 

[CaliS]

Not as confident as I would like to be, but at this point - the situation isn't going to get a LOT better.

Unless the market crashes and/or they stop paying out SS --- I won't be homeless.

 

[Rossana]

We prepared for retirement as best we could. It was important to us to save as much as possible for it. We never gambled or took risk, and never overspent.