The question is, how do we feel fulfilled in FI? How do we change our identify from our careers to being financially independent? We look at the numbers, and it is completely doable for us to retire now, but it almost seems unreal and that it is not so.
We always intended on retiring early when my husband is 50 and I'm 49; however, we have reached (surpassed, actually) our FI number. We are 39 and 40, and we are both still working and saving/investing as usual. We have a 10 year old.
He has a hard time believing that we can retire now, even though he sees the numbers in our favor. Like I said, he always intended on working another 10 years when he's 50 (an arbitrary number we picked in our 20s).
