Thank you for sharing!

> I still got complaints from my financial advisor that she could get us a better return than that, but I didn't care. I wanted more certainty than that.

Seems to me that she is the one hurting more because your choice undermined her commission lol

Not really, she does fine. She really does think I am over conservative in my risk tolerance. Sadly you don't get to re-run the experiment if you don't like the outcome (that being my risk intolerance speaking).