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Registered: ‎03-09-2010

How do you prepare for husbands retirement?

I've been a stay at home mom for over 15 years and I love my job.

DH has started thinking of retiring and I'm not on board yet. To me he still has more to do at work and I like the income. We still have children to get through college, weddings etc.

So, when a spouse retires how do you get them to understand that household work NEVER ends? In a sense I would never get to retire. I don't want to do all the work.

He is the type that rarely notices things that need fixing, like a doorknob would have to fall off before he would see the need to repair the wobble in the first place. He doesn't think about food until he opens the refrigerator to see what is in there. He always says I'm fine just eating leftovers but what about the rest of us and how did leftovers come to be in the first place?