Things we lose in retirement - validation

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We lose a major source of validation when we retire. Our job was probably the most significant source of validation that we had in our lives. And when we retire, everything that we got out of our career is kind of in the rearview mirror. So one of the things that happens, at least that happened to me, was I started feeling less worthwhile and less useful. And my self-esteem took a huge dip as a result of losing my primary source of validation. So something to consider when we go into retirement is it would probably be expected to feel a sense of loss of validation once we move away from our careers. And I don't know that you can really replace it. I mean, maybe you can. For me, it was just recognizing that's where those feelings of loss and frustration come from. Where those feelings were coming from and not trying to find some way to quote unquote fix it because it's just something that was gone that I had to adjust to. So validation or at the very least, a sense of validation.