Released: February 12, 2012

Talk with your spouse now about retirement plans

Source: Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post

There are many reasons I agreed to marry my husband, but one thing that clinched it for me was his answer to a question I asked early in our courtship. “Where do you see yourself when you retire?” I wondered. “I see myself in a rocking chair on a porch in a warm location watching our grandchildren playing in the backyard,” he said. I swooned. Last year, Fidelity Investments conducted a survey to find out whether couples are talking with each other about how they see their retirement years. For the most part, the surveyed couples who were approaching retirement or already retired weren’t communicating well.

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