“I wanted him to keep working but I’ve accepted now he’s going to come home. I’m just going to spend more time out of the house. I’d divorce him, but it’s too much trouble at my age.”
Hatae Ishizaki expressing distinct reservations about her 59-year-old husband’s impending retirement.
Well, virtual stranger glimpsed late at night or in between games of golf her husband may be, but numerous years spent enjoying long luncheons and trips with friends means that yes, divorce probably is ‘too much trouble’. Come next year however, when the law changes and allows women up to 50% of their husband’s retirement benefits, it might be a very different story altogether.
A situation that means Mr Ishizaki and millions more like him had better realise that it’s time to start talking and taking an interest, or alternatively it’ll be time to take up cooking lessons and work out how that contraption in the corner that cleans clothes works.
Paul says
The woes of the salaryman never end, do they? Still, he’s a lucky bastard to be able to afford to retire at 60.
Perhaps he could get another job, or join a monastery on day release. His wife sounds like a proper misery anyway.
Peter says
In reply to Paul – not so much lucky to be able to retire at 60, but more likely pushed out of his company at 6o. The poor chap probably doesn’t want to retire, as he has spent his life basically married to his work.
hair removal says
The alternative to learning cooking and washing may be to get divorced now before the law changes. With that extra half of his pension, he could afford laundry service.
Paul says
We should find his e-mail address and send him suggestions for hobbies.