Hello Eric,
It never really occurred to me that a man could struggle with retirement, but when I look back and think about that now, I did the same thing. Retirement gave me more time to drink, and advance my disease of alcoholism, to the point where "final retirement" was imminent.
My advice in this question is to put all the effort that you put into your former job into working on your recovery, and the rest will come naturally. Read the promises.
I begin each day with the recovery readings, and then I let the day happen.
Now, 4+ years into this new way of life, I can look back, and try to figure out when I had time to go to work.
Like sobriety, retirement is a gift from God. I feel so blessed and privileged that I don't have to go to "work" anymore.
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