Husband doesn't want to retire early

[deeshen13]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but chores fall so perfectly into positive habit creation. Read The Power of Habit, if needed.

I keep my ~2,000 sq. ft. house quite clean and honestly have rarely noticed any energy expenditure lost doing so. That's the nice part of having great habits -- they are automatic and don't use up precious life energy. Thus, I don't need a one day a week cleaning period or rigid rules or anything; I just keep the house clean as an on-going basis.

Frees up physical and mental energy for other areas of life!

[BTDretire]

As you may have heard Zsa Zsa Gabor died recently.
Zsa ZSa, said, she was a very good house keeper.
Every time she left a man, she kept the house.
:-l

[Grogounet]

Wow.. I'm amazed of the amount of men still living like 50 years ago when they were sole paytakers...

[Goldielocks]

Wow.. I'm amazed of the amount of men still living like 50 years ago when they were sole paytakers...

LOL!  paytaker.. 

....that's what you call it when DH is a SAHP that does no housework, sometimes forgets the kids activities, and does not cook!

jk

[dreams_and_discoveries]

CPA Cat I think you just scared me to death! I'm remaining single forever ;-)!

+ 1 here, CPA cat, I'm scared too!

[Verdandi]

My SO doesn't want to retire early either, and that's fine. I don't really think about retiring now, I just want to have the option to leave and to scale back to take care of kids one day and still travel like it's going out of style.

When I tried to explain to him the concept of early retirement, he looked strangely at me and explained that he loves his job.

But when I suggested to him that he could get the option of only working 20-30 hours per week and having more time for himself plus never having to worry about how to support children that are to come over the next years or me, or us both if we get sick and can't work anymore, and that that there wouldn't be any worries about the reduction of pensions due to demografic change, he became excited! Right now, we don't have a common concept or plan, and that is also fine. He is so naturally frugal and just doesn't want anything, and I will take care of it and surprise him when it's done :)