Hi, I'm Willow Belden, and you're listening to The Nature Fix on Out There.

This is our advice segment, where we use wisdom from the outdoors to help solve your most pressing personal problems.

I'm here with our advice columnists Becky Jensen and Angus Chen.

And the question they're taking on today comes from a listener in Florida.

Here's what he wrote.

What happens when you turn 59?

You wake every morning, do the exact same things every day.

The way you shave, shower, comb your hair, feed the cats,

eat the same things every day for breakfast, drive to work, do the same job, which you are locked into,

by the way, because you cannot go anywhere else without taking a giant pay cut. You are tired of living

in the state where you live and want to move north, somewhere, anywhere but Florida, where you've been since you were five years old.

However, you cannot because your mom is old and lives in Florida.

Your daughter also lives here and comes over for dinner every Sunday.

I just want to stand in the middle of a stream, waiters on with my fly rod in hand, and live out my last quarter. But I'm about

five and a half years away from retirement. But even then, will I be able to live my dream with

mom still living and daughter still single? Or should I relegate myself to dying in a state that I

cannot stomach to live in just to please everyone else. Signed, Just Tired. So after reading this

letter, we wanted to find out a little more about the situation. So we reached out to Just Tired.

We asked him to tell us more about his mother's situation and about his reasons for needing to live

near his daughter.

He told us his mom is not ill, but she is 86 years old.

She has memory issues, and she falls down on occasion.

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