He’s Definitely Retiring

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Well, my 70 year old dad (he’s a pastor) has decided to retire at the end of January. No one knows but Diana, my sister, and me. I don’t know when he’s going to inform the church board. He doesn’t really want to, but he feels it’s time to let the associate pastor take over (IF that is who the church wants to have the job). I think he hasn’t told literally anyone else because he knows they’ll all try to talk him out of it (they sure will). He’s going to offer to stay on part time though. I hope he does. They’re going to miss him if he’s totally out of the picture. My dad has no debt, but he’ll have to be very careful in retirement. He pays for all the bills, and Diana uses her check to pay her insurance premiums and then she puts the rest away. Why? Because as little as I get for disability, Diana gets less (despite working literally all her life. ALL her life). I’ll be sad to see him retire, but more than anything I just want him to be happy. He told me I’ll have to extra careful too because he won’t be able to help me as much (he pays my dental and eye doctor bills due to no insurance for that. It’s literally impossible for me to pay them, especially the dentist bill). I trust it will work out. How did you, or will you, know when to retire?