Barry
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And the one thing that was interesting to me is I know we were going to talk, our show is retirement and health, but does health drive retirement or does retirement drive health?
Clarence, did you write the paper for the University of California at Berkeley, their aging center?
One of the articles I scared was exactly what you were saying.
It's about retirement and relationships.
um and it just like a hundred percent this idea that now all of a sudden you're spending so much more time together correct you know we've been all busy doing our our own thing and you and you do you have to learn how to uh communicate again uh because it's in a different context um and it does involve things because you know when we work we sort of uh
evolve our habits and doing things in a certain way, which is a workplace, not the home place.
And those things that they talk about with retirement is, again, if you're a couple, that you need to talk about these things, the tasks around the house instead of getting in each other's way to kind of be a team and work together.
that, you know, brought up children, oftentimes that was done earlier in that relationship where, you know, there's not enough time to go right, you know, to focus, to figure out who's going to, you know, who's going to do what.
But in retirement, it becomes very
It's not, you know, all happiness and happiness because, you know, happiness comes in different forms.
I mean, you know, one of them is sort of the happiness from physical pleasure and things like that.
But then there's also if you have just that and you don't have the other part, which is happiness created from meaningful things that you do.