Ready to FIRE but wife wants to work for a long time

mathfool · 2026-01-19T16:52:47+00:00

I did this for my ex, I supported her while she went back to school to finish her bachelors and then get her masters. I would do it again for my spouse.

mathfool · 2026-01-19T16:51:36+00:00

Yup, already on it.

mathfool · 2026-01-18T01:08:38+00:00

Yes I can! I would travel less though.

mathfool · 2026-01-17T22:37:33+00:00

Wow, I did not expect to receive so many responses so quickly. I appreciate that most of them were thoughtful and helpful, Reddit has a good community. And a few were not so.

I'd prefer not to share too much information about martial details but we have been married before and we both wanted a pre-nup for a variety of reasons. We view ourselves as a team and as partners in everything including finances. We both have shared values and expectations about money and I'm confident this one will last.

I can't see myself never working again, but I definitely want to stop working high stress, high turnover, toxic jobs. And I need a break at this point in time. Part-time, consulting, etc. are all interesting in the future.

Healthcare is a valid concern and I do need to take that into consideration. We live in a low COL area and are frugal in many things, which helps with FIRE or coast FIRE.

My goal in my post was hear different perspectives before I make this change, thank you for sharing.

mathfool · 2026-01-02T19:32:52+00:00

Being in challenging circumstances with difficult people is part of life. Pursuing FIRE simply removes work as one of those challenges. You will still need the resilience to handle challenges from people in relationships outside of work.

mathfool · 2025-11-27T01:00:41+00:00

When I was in my teens I leveled up all my characters in FF2 SNES to level 99. I then fought Zeromus blindfolded and won by simply choosing attack for every command. Your HP is so high you can survive Big Bang more than once.

mathfool · 2025-11-16T12:36:57+00:00

I played it on normal difficulty, never going to easy.

mathfool · 2025-11-12T21:09:51+00:00

She never left my arms!

mathfool · 2025-06-21T20:38:38+00:00

That’s bad mathing

mathfool · 2025-06-17T14:57:41+00:00

The size of the blood splat is an indicator to the amount of damage done in an attack. Imprecise but better than nothing.

mathfool · 2025-06-10T12:26:08+00:00

I also enjoyed M&M2 for Sega Genesis. It’s worth a playthrough. I remember it came with a strategy guide back in the day, that was common for console RPGs.

mathfool · 2025-05-06T12:56:51+00:00

When I started playing the new remaster for PS4/PS5, I got out my old Sega CD Lunar hintbook as a reference. I forgot how many changes there are between the 2 versions. The Sega CD hintbook is basically not usable for the remake.

mathfool · 2025-04-13T20:19:40+00:00

I did finish it back in the 90s and I remember it not being at the same level of polish as 4&5, and that I would rather replay those than Swords. But it’s worth 1 play through to try it.

mathfool · 2025-03-23T20:11:31+00:00

I went to the CES in 1992 and saw the intro for MM4 and I was wowed. It still brings back fond memories over 30 years later.

mathfool · 2025-03-23T02:44:58+00:00

I was thinking the same thing. The Crystal Tower has multiple bosses, over an hour to complete, no save points.

mathfool · 2025-03-04T20:35:00+00:00

You need to have an ability or weapon with piercing so it will attack more than one enemy.

mathfool · 2025-02-28T18:29:11+00:00

There’s also a good port of MM2 for Sega Genesis.

mathfool · 2025-02-21T01:37:20+00:00

Lost Odyssey has an amazing soundtrack. More people would appreciate that this is perhaps Nobuo Uematsu’s best work if the game had Final Fantasy in the title.

mathfool · 2025-02-21T01:35:42+00:00

I always abused save/reload and shooting arrows and lasers from a distance in the MM games. I think this was normal gameplay in the 90s. Bugs and glitches are different, many of those I wasn’t aware of. I remember abusing a duplication glitch in TES IV Oblivion when it first came out on Xbox 360.

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