Talk To Me: My friends are retired but I have to keep working  

Psychologist Caroline Martin is here to answer your questions on whatever issues you are dealing with in life, from work pressure and stress to loneliness and grief

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Most of my friends retired at 60. But I don’t have the option as my husband was let go from work two years ago and hasn’t worked since. It isn’t easy to hear them chat about their travel plans and coffee dates when I work full time. I feel tired and would love to enjoy what’s left of my life, but I have to plough on.

“Fomo” is a pejorative term we associate with young people struggling with the very normal feeling that they may be missing out on an experience when stuck doing something less exciting. But “fear of missing out” is not exclusively an adolescent or young adult experience — it can happen at any stage.