Watching a couple argue over a $12K trip to Italy.
"That's too much," he said.
They have $3.9M. Their plan shows they'll end with $4.5M at age 95.
The math says spend. The spreadsheet says spend. I said spend.
But 35 years of "save, don't spend" doesn't shut off overnight.
The hardest part of retirement planning isn't the numbers.
It's convincing people they've already won.

