“My wife would have been very happy to be in Arizona full time and I would much prefer to be in California full time — I was adamant that we were going to keep the house in Mill Valley as our base,” Mr. Goldsholle said.
“But my wife has been a good sport and I’m willing to split the year with her.”Among couples of a certain age, there are many iterations of the “what will we do in retirement” question, said Gail Saltz, a psychiatrist in private practice in New York, and a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill-Cornell Medical College.
“One iteration may be that one member of the couple wants to retire, the other doesn’t.
“It may hark back to discussions around earlier transitions like ‘will we have children?
How many?’ Will we stay in the city or raise them in the suburbs?’ “
Persons:
Mr, Goldsholle, Gail Saltz, Saltz
Organizations:
Presbyterian Hospital, Weill, Cornell Medical College
Locations:
Arizona, California, Mill Valley, New York