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This is an appeal to all the single women out there. I've started work on my next book - Retirement and the Single Woman. Would you take a moment to drop me a line at retirement@annharrisonlifecoaching.com
and let me know:
If you were to remain single for the rest of your life,
a) what would be your biggest fears regarding your old age? and
b) what are you doing to allay those fears?
If you could also let me know your age, that would be excellent!
Many thanks in anticipation...
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Oh, scary! I've been single a lot of my adult life and I'm scared because instead of saving the maximum I can toward retirement I am busy paying for stuff by myself. I have thought a lot about this. Two CAN live as cheaply as one, so one pays for TWO no matter what.
Posted by: Rhea | October 17, 2007 at 03:06 PM
I'm 56 years old, self-employed all my life, and have been widowed for three years. No kids, grandchildren, etc. - it's just me, a bunch of computers, and a small herd of cats. My biggest fear about aging is being alone ... I spend a great deal of my time helping my aged mother, and I realize that when I'm her age, there isn't going to be a daughter there to "do for" me, or even to give me a call now and then. What I've been doing to allay those fears is (1)on the physical front, making every effort to become as healthy and physically fit as possible (lost a lot of weight, stopped smoking, exercise regularly, etc.) and (2) on the spiritual/emotional front, making every effort to find within myself what non-single people find in their significant other ... love, fulfillment, pleasure in daily life. Learning to reach into one's own self for what we're taught to expect from external sources is one of the hardest things I've ever done, but whatever my future does or does not hold, I sincerely believe learning to be as self-sufficient in ALL ways is the best - and really the only - preparation I can make for aging.
Posted by: zcx | October 21, 2007 at 04:44 PM