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Originally Posted by TrudyM
Anybody experience emotional / mental shutdown when facing retirement?How did you get past it?
Did you deal with all right away or put off the decisions that could wait.
Husband is going to hit the retirement button next Thursday.
We are both having Panic attacks.  Usually I handle all paperwork, plans, logistics etc. for our marriage unit. However my brain has shut down. I pulled out my retirement preplan file done back in 2006 when he first qualified for his early pension and we considered retiring to the villages (I had been offered a job there-- long story). I realized none of the steps to take are now applicable.
I have been sitting around for a week in a state of total brain freeze.  The to do list is so long I don't know where to start. I keep thinking I am forgetting something vital that will create a mess.
I sit and read post after post here thinking it will give me an emotional boost and get me back in action. Nothing.
How did you handle it when it was you retiring? |
I'm not really getting it but the "To do" list should be very short.
You should be lining up your income sources and watching to see them post to your accounts. Then living with it for a few months at least.
Go to diner , movies relax...unless you are leaving businesses or jobs you love to go to...that's different.
If it's fear of activities in retirement... you are looking at the right place to come to live...go for it! There's work too should you wish to.
I retired May 1, 2012 and the wife January 1 after moving here..there are no regrets so far. We both wonder at the 40 years we put into working.
Try to relax; this phase will pass.