You would think in well aligned couples this would be the opportunity to go and tour the world together or get divorced a find new partners.
It might be worth linking the two together at the bottom of the Retired Husband Syndrome article.
I don't believe "RHS" exists as a real medical condition. It sounds just like girlies being girly, with teddy-bears and social circles and so on; and blokes being blokey and controlling the remote. This is just people being people.
How does that feel for them?
Imagine if there's an article about what the psychological effects are if you have a family member in deep coma for many years. You're complaining that that article isn't talking about the effects of being in deep coma for many years on a person. They're different subjects!
I'm 1000% positive that there's heaps of research on this, just google "study on male retirees"
Well, the latter certainly does happen, a lot. The world is a different place from when our grandparents were young. Nowadays, people tend to keep their options open, and when divorce happens it's usually the women (especially in black communities) that initiate the divorce because they think they can "do better". Doesn't help that family courts still financially and emotionally rape the man since women see this as incentive for divorce.
If you wanted to raise that issue here that's fine, it's arguably on topic here to ask if there's a complementary syndrome affecting husbands and what that is and to discuss issues around it. That's fine, but this isn't an appropriate criticism of the article.
This article is specifically about the way this affects the wife. I don't know if there's a related article about the husband's experience, but the male perspective isn't particularly relevant to this article.
This requires the finances to do it, the health to handle it, and a lack of responsibilities to others. Then there is the desire which a lot of people don't have. Only a limited number of people can realistically do this. To assume it's open to everyone, I think, misses the contexts most people live with.
Change is hard. Retirement doesn't just affect the person retiring. It also affects their spouse, if they have one. It's totally ok to put some focus on that.
Japanese culture isn't like western culture. There are differences and I think some of that may be lost on a western crowd.
> or get divorced a find new partners
You can love someone and still be stressed about them being around all the time or a change. It's not just a change for them but for the spouse.
Change IS hard. But my original point is that this change is hard also for men and this is not addressed in the article -- its very one sided.
You're surprised an article about wives is "very one sided"?
No - it shouldn't be criticized for being "one-sided"
It's completely and 100% fine to have an article that only addresses a single issue - trying to wedge everything in everywhere is moronic