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I was the chief executive of an organization I had helped found, as well as a professional behavioral scientist, and I should have known better. But I didn’t. After 25 years of working under the strain of building an organization, of interweaving the ideas and needs of the key staff with a multiplicity of outside forces, I was ready for the beautiful promised land of retirement. I persuaded my wife to leave our lovely Georgetown home and move to North Carolina, where I could golf to my heart’s content and enjoy relief from the stress of having to make daily decisions. I thought it would be just wonderful.
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Bradford, L.P. (1979). Can You Survive Your Retirement. In: Moos, R.H. (eds) Coping with Life Crises. The Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7021-5_15
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