Successful Retirement - Starting Points

At last you’ve both retired and hopefully your financial planner has said you can afford it. From here on in, life’s one happy holiday – or is it?

What you probably haven’t been told is that retirement brings a whole range of new challenges that can really test your relationship or marriage.

Retirement ranks up there with getting married and having your first child as a major, major change in our lives. How we handle it depends largely on the relationship we have with our partner and how well prepared we are.

For most couples, this is the first time in their relationship that they have been together consistently 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This can be a traumatic experience for…