karead
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Did you, or your spouse have an easier time making the decision to go full time?
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DianneOK
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Very nice and enlightening...I had the same thoughts. In fact, with our lifestyle before fulltiming (LEO and farming/business)getting away to deal with family issues was extremely difficult and stressful.
Fulltiming gave us the freedom to be where were were needed when it was. And we had our own bed 
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2Rovers
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karead, that is a very nice article and a beautiful kitty
I suppose for us it was easier at first for me. DH was still working and wasn't sure how the corporate world would react to someone living in a motorhome. Once he got past that, he bought into it rapidly. It allowed us to travel more and not have to worry about maintaining a house/yard etc. Once he retired, we were able to move into the travel mode much easier and by then, all of the 'stuff' was disposed of.
It was however, a dream of both of ours as long as I can remember.
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mockturtle
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Neither DH nor I had any qualms about going full time back in the 1990's. We knew we wanted to do it. The hardest part for me was giving away my chickens. 
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Viajo
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It was much easier for me as possessions are not important...but I do miss my garden. It was harder for Bill as 25 years ago he went through a nasty divorce and she took everything so any "stuff" he was able to get was a victory over her in a way...it showed he had survived I guess...so I am still working on him to get rid of more possessions. It will no doubt take a while.
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Dog Folks
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It really doen't matter if the person is a man or woman It just dpends on the person.
In our case, my DW was the "camper" in the family and dreamed of the day we could full time. She had no attachment issues, be it the house or the family.
I was neutral about full timing. I could "take it or leave it". UNTIL I found out that my "honey do" list was much shorter than at home, and the timing of the job was not critical. If I didn't do it today, tomorrow ws just fine.
Being basically lazy, this fit me perfectly.
It all dpends on the pesons mindset, not the persons sex.
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My wife was ready to go in 1998. It took her 5 years to talk me into it. It was a BIG scary step for me. Not giving up the stuff in the condo, but it was just the fear of the unknown and if we'd make it or not. Now after 5 years of full-timing, I seem to be more relaxed about things or so the wife says, then when we lived in a sticks and bricks.
I know another couple where the wife wants to go full-timing and the husband doesn't. But she does have it now they are gone 6 to 8 months a year.
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Wife gave away the china, crystal, and sterling silver to the daughter-in-laws; then I went out to the garage and looked at my tools. Couldn't do it. We bought a small home in a retirement community and now travel about 8 months a year.
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tonyandkaren
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Both of us were ready to go. Because we had been planning on fulltiming for a long time it was pretty easy.
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Dedutch
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I think it was an up and down, back and forth thing for us. My husband made a flippant remark about doing it fulltime, and I don't think he figured I'd bite. When I did I think for a moment he felt like he was backed into a corner, but then it began to grow on him. There were times when we both had reservations. At one time he had thrown out my antique Christmas ornaments and all the homemade Christmas stuff the kids had made when they were little, and even tho I was furious at the time, it helped me to let go a little, so getting rid of stuff was not quite as hard as I thought it would be. DH is still working and the comment about how the "corporate world" would react hit home. I think it was a minor concern of his at first, but it's been almost 5 months now (wow), and I think we're over that hump. I don't think it was more difficult or easy for either of us, pretty much equal.
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