What Factors In To Your Becoming More Of A Homebody As You Get Older? (55, spouse)
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My wife and I very rarely ever go anywhere at night. We don't need to, so we don't. I still have excellent night vision so that's not the reason. We live in the country and night driving means pitch black and no ambient light.
More and more we don't want to go any where. We have a nice oasis at home with plenty of privacy and room on our acreage to do what ever we want. There are times when we realize that it's been a week since we were off our property.
I have plenty to do at home, gardening, yard work, shop work, and for entertainment we have Dish network with all the channels and with pay for view movies, we watch the latest movies just a few months after they open at theaters. We have a main movie room with 70" HD TV and surround sound. In another room we have another 60" HD TV for news viewing and media access.
Except for food, we have almost all other supplies delivered by UPS. Our fuel expense before retiring was $500-$700 a month, now it's below $100.
We did considerable traveling up until about 5 years ago, and now traveling does not hold much interest to us.
Over all we are very happy with our current situation.
I am the opposite of this. I also live in the country and find night driving easy. No traffic and my headlights work well. It's only a 15 minute drive to town.
The last thing I want in life is social isolation. Sure, I like relaxing at home, but I also like to be engaged with people and have community involvement. Also, thru my former job, I learned that not engaging with friends helps with developing dementia. Being socially isolated can make personal loss much harder to face- so important to have support from friends.
I'd go nuts if my only source of entertainment was my TV
When I was working I always missed home. I do go out now to go shopping or go camping or in the fall, to view the foliage and go to a farm for cider and donuts.
Now I stay home a lot, gardening, reading, on the computer, playing with the dog, cooking, just being home and relaxing. When I was working I was always on the go and Saturdays were the worst day of the week. Saturday was the day I had to get EVERYTHING done. Sunday consisted of getting ready for Monday --I was a teacher and had to prepare, also getting clothes ready for the week.
So now I have the time and opportunity at last. Just staying home is so pleasant!
I'd go to a lot more local events if they didn't start so late. Some of the music shows start at 7 or 8 pm, which is fine, even 9pm is okay, but the ones that don't start until 11 or so? That is just too late. I get up between 6-7 in the morning and getting home at 2-3 from a show leaves me groggy the next day.
Also aimless road trips are less appealing than they were when I was younger, I am sick of the car and tired of driving at this point. A road trip with a destination (camping, the beach, the mountains, off to see family) is fine, but a "lets just drive" ... nah.
Understood... but when you're retired you can sleep in the morning of and the morning after....take a nap in the afternoon....then stay up as late as you want! That all sounds really fun and decadent to me!
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It is an opioid, though, and you will develop tolerance and/or dependency if you take it every day. I don't, so I haven't.
I am the opposite of this. I also live in the country and find night driving easy. No traffic and my headlights work well. It's only a 15 minute drive to town.
The last thing I want in life is social isolation. Sure, I like relaxing at home, but I also like to be engaged with people and have community involvement. Also, thru my former job, I learned that not engaging with friends helps with developing dementia. Being socially isolated can make personal loss much harder to face- so important to have support from friends.
I'd go nuts if my only source of entertainment was my TV
I'm in a high population area and go to a big church. I am single and live alone, I go to a church event every day except Thursday and often go shooting with my friend then.
Because of this I have a lot of friends, they make me feel good, and I am happy because of this.
I am afraid of becoming a home body so I try to be active and make plans so we do go out, and often I go out by myself. It is easy for me to be a home body so I have a need to actively resist it.
does anyone else feel that way? what do you do?
Yep. I peg the meter for being an introvert. But even introverts need some human interaction to avoid becoming 'eccentric' (or worse).
I walk a 1.8-mile round trip every morning to get my Starbucks. And I volunteer shelving books at the library, twice a week, 2 hours at a time.
And I fight the urge, when DH wants to go out on some errand, to stay home. It gets me moving and gets me out into the "room with the big blue ceiling".
But I decided as soon as I retired that I wasn't going to try to drive after dark. It's just that much more difficult, and driving has never been really easy for me at all.
I am still working full time 8-4:30, M-F in a in a very busy high level people interactive environment. Evenings and weekends unless there are errands to run or family functions to attend you will find me at home recharging my batteries more often than not sitting in my Lazy Girl recliner
My home is my castle that's why I'm a homebody. But seriously, even living in London where I just hop on the bus to go anywhere, I would still be home early. Only twice, we went out for a night concert and theatre during our stay here.
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