Chapter 1: The Retirement Party
\nAt sixty-four years old, I thought the hardest part of my retirement party would be keeping my emotions under control.<\/p>\n
I was wrong.<\/p>\n
The real challenge came when my husband decided that the evening celebrating my career would be the perfect time to destroy it.<\/p>\n
I had spent thirty-five years working for the same national insurance company.<\/p>\n
My title was Senior Operations Coordinator. It was not flashy. I never had a corner office or a reserved parking spot.<\/p>\n
But when a claim got tangled in red tape, when a branch office faced a crisis, or when a confused client needed answers, people called me<\/p>\n
I knew how to solve problems.<\/p>\n
More importantly, I knew how to explain complicated things without making people feel embarrassed for asking questions.<\/p>\n
That skill mattered to me.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, it never seemed to matter much to my husband, Roy. Continue Reading \u2b07\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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