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The Retirement Newsletter: Can you get post-vacation blues when you are retired?
Issue Number: 178 (31) — If retirement is a permanent holiday, why do I still feel down after my vacation?
Welcome
Welcome to issue 178 (31), where I look at the post-vacation blues. Can you still get them when you are retired?
Well, spoiler alter — yes, you can. Well, I did after my most recent trip.
Post-vacation blues
We all know the post-vacation (holiday) blues. I’m sure we have all experienced them. I know I did before I retired. I would go away on holiday and return to a full email inbox. I would be there in my office looking at all the emails and the work I had to do, and I could feel all the good my holiday had done evaporating.
In issue 170 (23) — Can you go on holiday (vacation) when you are retired? — I asked if you can still go on holiday when you are retired. My conclusion was that you can, but that it felt different. I reasoned that if you were going away and changing your routine, it would be a holiday.
In the post, I commented that I had taken a few holidays since retiring and noticed that I didn’t get the post-holiday blues — the sadness that the…
