What do when one of the spouses wants to retire before the other?

Brian, I am so excited about this because we understand that money is more than simply

math.

So a lot of times we get asked questions that are mathematical questions, but then there are behavioral questions that we have to

weigh into and we love leaning into your questions we love loading you up with

information that helps you do money better so right now we have the team out in the wings collecting your

questions in the chat. So if you want us to answer your question, make sure you get it

to us right now. With that, producer Rebe, I'm going to throw it over to you.

Yeah, we're going to kick it off with that retirement question that you referenced from Seth.

It says, is it wrong of me to quit my job and expect my wife to keep working? My wife and I are on track to coast to retirement in about 10 years.

I have a stressful job that I want to leave now, but we would still need income to cover

expenses until we can fully retire

Interesting question. What are your thoughts? All right, so the phraseology there was really interesting

Is it wrong for me to expect my wife to continue working?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the expect right there gives me, makes my

spidey, that makes my spidey sense to ting a little bit. Is there anything wrong though with

one spouse deciding that they're going to retire and the other spouse continue to work?

Not at all and sometimes it is the wife that continues to work and

sometimes it's the husband that continues to work. What I think matters the most

is that you guys are on the same page. You have the same conversation around ultimately

what goal are you trying to achieve and how do you achieve that? So Brian, I have some clients

here locally who are very dear clients of mine and the husband had a very stressful job and the job was so

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