Yes, Please

I wish my husband would exercise the good sense the Lord gave him and trust his instincts enough to realize he can quit working for the city and retire. He has plenty of skills and could either start his own business or do something in a field he likes at least. He swears he loves his job, yet all the bitching he does about it tells me otherwise. We have dreams and plans for retiring to the coast someday, I want that to be while we are young enough to enjoy it. Of course, we have to wait a while before we make that final move, since we have family here to consider, however, he could still retire and start working on fulfilling a new dream until then. He has always wanted to take people out fishing, he could get his captain's license so that when we do move to the coast, he is ready for the challenge. Another dream of his is to open a franchise or his own restaurant, he could start researching how to do that. Why must he always stick with what is inside his comfort zone instead of taking a risk and trying for a little adventure?

I have told him many times that I am game for whatever he chooses to do, even if that means we don't enjoy the same lifestyle we currently do. I work part time and write a few days a week, that could be done from anywhere. I could continue what I am doing until we moved and then find another job when we get there. We have money invested, yet he never thinks it's enough. Will it ever be? If someone offered us a cabin close to the beach where we want to retire, even if he decided we weren't "ready" yet, I would be the first to say, "Yes, please!" I have faith in him, I just wish he had as much faith in himself. Our dream is to someday live close to the area we love at the southern coast of Texas, my preference would be a beach cabin or condo close enough that I could enjoy morning walks on the beach. I want to drink coffee on our porch while simultaneously staring out at the waves rolling in off the gulf. From a nice rocking chair would be perfect. Does that not sound like paradise to you? 

Of course, the other part of my wish is that I could make enough from my writing that he could retire and not work anymore anywhere! He would happily wile away the hours on a golf course, or fishing from his million dollar sportfishing boat that I would buy him with my hard earned money. I would write a best seller a year and life would be perfect. While that may sound like a fantasy to you, I think it is totally doable. 

He has retired twice before, so we have those incomes and he has had a dream of getting his captains license and opening a charter business for sport fishing. He also talks of opening some kind of restaurant or franchise, I think he would be great at it, with his cooking skills and mind for business, he would totally rock it, I'm sure. He worries about money all of the time and wants to work long enough that he's secure with quitting. Is there ever such a time? I say just risk it and see what happens. Worse comes to worse, I can go back to a full time job or we get used to a simpler lifestyle, we are pretty spoiled truth be known. We could make do with a lot less, we just don't want to if we could figure out how to sustain our current one. Not that we are rich, don't get me wrong, yet we are completely comfortable.

I wish he could get out of his head and just go for it. Of course, I could work harder to become rich as a writer, increase my side hustles or just start my own business once we retire. Who knows, I might be able to buy him that boat someday after all. A girl can dream, right?