Retirement was almost forced on us by an over the top package offered to my husband and to my job being relocated to down town Boston! Neither one of us had any interest in retirement, we both loved our jobs and had never even discussed retirement and certainly not to Florida - which we were repeatedly told was for the "newly wed and almost dead"!
We took the "retirement package, along with the pension and the benefits" and settled into retirement. My otherhalf did great, got a job in the pro shop at our local golf course which left me in the house 24/7, while he was out meeting and greeting and bending the elbow with his friends at the club! I was ready to do something drastic and ended up taking a part time job in a local store which passed the time and gave me people to communicate with.
After several years we "found" TV and are now very happily settled into retirement, but we are on the go five out of seven days a week. Thankfully, there is more than enough to keep your mind and body occupied here, so a satisfactory retirement adjustment has been made - but, I would not want to go through it again.
