HeyJaredThe Happier Wife
I am a builder of things that unite. Living, and loving life. I field-test tools from the book 'Your Happier Life Toolbox' and write about it. Relatable stories about life. No gurus here just agency over building your happier place in the world.
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The Retirement Crisis Nobody Budgets For (It Isn’t Money) (opens the original)
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This past June my husband retired from corporate life. He has been able to work remotely for the last 6 years or so and that has allowed us to learn how to live within each other’s spaces 24-7 well.Many things get discussed when thinking about retirement.The nest egg.Very busy mind calculatorWithdrawal rates401(k) panicHealth Insurance cobra then what?Social Security when to take it?When you spend four decades operating inside a career, you become used to your day being scheduled for you. It see
The Guilt of Pulling Up Anchor (opens the original)
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There is a distinct kind of madness that takes over a driveway forty-eight hours before a six-week road trip across the country.The van smells like new air freshener, and clean sheets. (It will not return in such shape lol) Yeti has already positioned his seventy-pound body dead center across the walkway.He knows the signs. Totes are stacked on the porch.Every charging cable known to mankind is coiled in a bin.My Google my map has so many pins it looks like a dart game on the boardwalk. Billy is
August’s Whiplash (opens the original)
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If you live anywhere near the Jersey Shore, you know the specific flavor of madness that takes over in August.It is packed bumper-to-bumper full of families desperately squeezing in the last weeks of ocean air, toddlers throwing sand-filled tantrums by 4:00 PM, and lines so large at the ice cream places that they often stretch halfway down the block.There is an interesting shift that happens here after Labor Day. (first week of Sept) The college kids pack their cars, say their emotional goodbyes
The Tree Doesn’t Fight October (opens the original)
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We treat letting go as a tragic surrender.We hold on until our knuckles turn white, convinced that if we just grip the past a little tighter, we can keep the story from changing.We do it with old identities, expired relationships, and worn-out careers.We stay in the room long after the music has stopped, holding onto ghosts because the ghost feels safer than the empty dark.Have you ever seen an oak tree.It doesn’t negotiate with the autumn wind. It doesn’t hold a committee meeting about whether
The Brittle Adult Binary (opens the original)
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My living room currently looks like an active collision zone. Pillows stacked in front of the couch. Blankets covering sharp edges of furniture.My toddler 18th month old grandson is attempting to conquer breaking the record of diving off as many things as possible in one day.He takes two unstable running steps, wobbles like a jelly mold, and goes down hard.I brace myself to swoop in. But he doesn’t cry. He looks up, lets out a delighted, belly laugh, smacks the floor with both hands, and scrambl
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