It's really quite intriguing... After my previous post... I got a couple of comments... I suspect they aren't regular readers cos for the folks who have followed my story, I think I addressed many of the points raised by the commentators... The gist of the comments revolved around me making use of my wife and that I am using her money to fulfill my wants and my travel and the car and all that stuff... and that maybe I intend to persuade her to work til she's old so that we can enjoy our standard of living. And naturally, this was annoying and unfair... especially since I've talked about this many times. So I thought, maybe I should do a post on this, and next time anyone who posts comments about me making use of my wife, I can just direct them to this post. You see, when I first retired/semi-retired, I asked my wife ......