I am getting divorced. I don’t have a partner and I will not have one because of the illness. I always think about my retirement life. Will my kids accompany me as I accompany them now. Will they just buy an AI adult toy for me? I don’t like you guys who have family around. My whole family and my connections are in China. I miss them very much.
ps, Any grammar corrections are appreciated.
Where are you living now? Can you move back to China to be with your family?
My children have to be in New Jersey because my ex-husband has half custody. I can not abandon them to go back to China.
I’m sorry, that must be tough to be so far from family.
So that’s why I always think about the future. I am afraid of solitude. But I don’t know how to deal with them.
I am very close to you; we are practically state neighbors!
I want to go to a particular assisted living home. It’s SO nice, and the care is wonderful. They have so many activities, and they have a nice program in place for people who lose the ability to pay after they’ve been become residents so they don’t have to leave. They have memory care and a hospital in-house in case residents progress and need extra help. Of course, living with my kids would be my first option.
My mom used to live with me before she got married. If anything happens to her husband, she knows she always has a place with us. I can’t provide the level of care my dad needs, though, and he wouldn’t be willing to move out of Texas anyways. Unfortunately, I don’t think my sister will care for him, and he is really scared of being put in a home. It’s sad, but I don’t know what to do.
Yes, I have invested in getting a rocking chair and a pair of pants that goes up to my chest.
I am prepared for anything now.
How old are you @bjrpengjing if I may ask? I hope I will live long enough to retire. I hope everything works for you.
I just hope Social Security retirement is still available in thirty years.
I started working and paying into Social Security when I was 16, and I am 39 now. I figure I have at least another 26 years of work to go. It sure would suck if SS was suddenly gone, after all I’ve paid into it.
The pension plan I’ve paid into through my teaching job the past eight years will help, though I don’t make a lot of money there, so it’s not like I have a lot of money in my pension fund.
I just hope I live long enough to retire, and that I am financially able to do so.
I don’t have any kids to take me in.
@bjrpengjing
Do you need help setting up a retirement plan?
I’m dirt poor. I’m still trying to figure out what I’m going to do.
Tell me about it. The only thing I know is that I will get some money when my parents die but I will probably need it to buy a place to live. I can always hope that by some miracle I start to feel even better. Then I may End up getting a good full time job and having more money.
I consider myself retired now.
When I’m ready to retire most of the world will most likely either be on fire or under water. Who knows what governments will collapse, which animals become extinct, which cities become inhabitable from climate change.
The future looks bleak.
@anon12381882 My mom is giving me an expensive piece of jewelry when she dies. I won’t want to sell it though. I’ll want to keep it.
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