Claire

We're on different timelines.

I was already a little behind because I took six years out of saving.

If I were to retire at 65, I'd retire really well.

But

Neither of us wants to work forever.

We'd like to retire at or before kind of normal retirement age, but we'd also like to spend as much of retirement together.

And I think that

kind of inevitably means that I would need to retire early.

And I think we haven't quite circled that square of how to do that or what options we have as far as, yeah, being able to do that.

So I think we're very curious to hear kind of what our options are, or maybe some of the pitfalls of early retirement, if that was the option.

I have heard of it.

Yeah, it's nice.

I do it primarily because I love dogs, but we also love travel.

So I think it's kind of best of both worlds that I get that dog time, but then kind of none of the bad parts.

And I like to put that money or so far I've been putting that money in a sunny day fund.

So I have 12 months of expenses in a rainy day fund.

But then I put all the dog sitting money into a sunny day fund to potentially pay for a honeymoon or whatever that ends up being.

I think the big thing we've talked about is keeping our place in Austin as a home base and then doing, you know, one month stints abroad or in other places in the U.S.

kind of what our options are as far as splitting that expense or especially given kind of longer term goals, we're in a unique position.

And so it's hard to ask other couples kind of what they're doing.