Early retirement five year update
A man describes his experience with early retirement. The entire thing is worth reading, but summary is:
- He plans out early retirement with his wife
- First year or two is great, he travels a lot
- Second year, he notices many of his friends (who still work) have lost interest in talking to him
- Also around the second or third year, his wife starts to lose interest in him (implied)
- Throughout this time he is "writing", but not having much traction or success
- Third year, wife becomes more and more unhappy
- Fourth year, he develops Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome
- Also fourth year, his wife finds a new guy and they break up
- Fifth year, he gets a job again
- Eventually he ends up with new girl who reads his blog about financial independence
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