By Lin Floyd

Retirement brings with it many challenging lessons. One of these is to learn how to survive being together 24/7 with a newly retired spouse. That’s a little too much togetherness for most of us. I discovered this when my husband retired several years ago. Suddenly I found myself with another adult by my side during the day as I went grocery shopping, a former solitary duty of mine. Previously, I’d enjoyed leisurely strolling up and down the aisles making up my menu as I selected produce, meat or other commodities. Now I suddenly had a retired engineer hubby with a linear mind making comments like: Do we really want to eat that? or See how much hydrogenated oil or added sugar that has!

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