I’m a grinder, and we don’t have a super exciting home life. It’s not sexy but I feel ok when I look at our portfolio knowing I can walk away from work if I want and am not a slave to debt. Also, if I quit at 50, I’ll only be at a ~$2-2.6M portfolio balance. Fine for paying for our current standard of living, but noting fancy, and way below some folk’s SoL. My wife is weird/OCD about money and is a real penny pincher, so that is a factor in this. Another factor is all of our immediate family/relatives are set financially and are good with money, so I know I won’t have a bunch of increased expenses dealing with them down the road. I have been very lucky in that regard. To be honest if I quit at 50 I’ll probably get bored and want some more spending money and may go back to work at some point to basically use all the money for fun stuff. Maybe I’ll just keep working but kick the fun budget up a lot. For me, that was the point of FIRE and what I’ve done, to get a foundation of wealth laid and then have options. I didn’t want to end up like the Jack Lemmon character in Glengarry Glen Ross. On the wealth building side I missed many opportunities. We didn’t take some risks along the way that many of our cohort did that is bothersome now. We didn’t want to be landlords and sold all the houses we owned along the way that would have been killer Austin rental properties now. Passed on other investment properties that have doubled in value. Should have pushed more money into the market during the covid dip. Also, we hate having debt and have paid off houses at accelerated rates, when a more sophisticated investor would have allocated capital differently and been more leveraged; this has probably cost us a fair amount in the long run.