We don’t have a boat or a club membership, and a big night out is the Italian place three miles from home.” (Photo subjects are models.) /iStockphoto I’ve been married 31 years and have two grown children, 29 and 31, and three grandchildren. I want to retire, and my wife says we can’t afford to. That’s odd, because we have $4 million saved, and our house, worth roughly $1.1 million, is paid off.
I’m 60 and my wife is 58, so we’re quite close to retirement anyway. We have no debt, and our kids are financially independent. Neither of us spends much on ourselves.
I make $230,000 a year and my wife makes $110,000, and we’ve spent 35 years saving and investing. By any reasonable measure we should be happy about where we are. Instead, we argue about money all the time.
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