Mike Milligan uses Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" to show what retirement planning actually requires: preparing emotionally for aging, loss, caregiving, and widowhood, not just managing money. The goal is dignity at the end of life and avoiding becoming a burden to your children.
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Back to Willie Nelson. Sad song, Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. Emotional song. Yeah, this song hits an emotional note. It's about aging, it's about loss, it's even about memory. And as retirees, those are the realities of mortality and caregiving for a spouse at the end of life or even widowhood. See, these deeper emotions, they surface. And I mean, this song brings it right to the forefront too. So clients, who are prepared, not just financially, but emotionally for this phase of life, are prepared to handle this. We don't want to become burdens on our kids. Well, everybody who's listening to this would say the same thing. We don't want to be a burden to our kids. We want the end of our life to have some dignity to it. We want our end of our life to have memories of spending time together.