I love your story, @lizelle. You faced the life altering adversity of becoming a widow and losing your life partner, and kept moving and continued living life and being an entrepreneur. It can't have been easy. And as you said, it had to be quite a wake-up call too. But I'm so glad you have no regrets and only wonderful memories of the time you had with your husband.

And thank you for the "counterpoint" view regarding early retirement. Several of my friends who have retired in their mid-sixties are guilting me about it, which is ridiculous. We all have to make these decisions for ourselves. But the things you said really underscored why I'm not comfortable with it yet. I'm happy to work a few more years and get to a point where my nest egg is really in great shape, and that is the right course for me. (And of course meanwhile I'm working on some residual income projects!) So I'm not going to listen to them anymore!