Dear Prudence,
My partner and I have done well with saving and have $20 million evenly split between us. We maintain separate finances (my choice). I semi-retired last year and am enjoying life—doing a bit of consultancy work to keep me busy. He is still working a very high-stress job, but doesn’t want to stop working. He is very frugal, as am I, but he is obsessed with “not having enough money for retirement.”
We are both in our late 50s. The house is paid off. We have no debt at all. He doesn’t spend money on anything except for house repairs and essentials. How can I get him to understand that we have more than enough and we should be enjoying life? I come from extreme poverty. He was raised very comfortably in the upper middle class.