Married Women, Have Your Own Nest Egg
Don’t leave your financial security to chance!
I’m in a situation where I could possibly get divorced. We’re “trying to figure it out”…I have no idea what that means yet or what our future holds.
But what I do know is I am scared and do not feel safe financially.
If we were to get divorced, he owns it all, and I….well I own nothing. I doubt that it would be messy, but I do know that my credit sucks, our shared bank account is just that ‘shared’ and I have no savings of my own.
The younger generations have it figured out in this sense. They’re not taking last names, staying independent of their significant others, taking care of themselves first: financially and emotionally.
We weren’t taught that. We are the last generation of the children of the boomers who were taught old traditions of ‘togetherness’, shared income and assets, households that don’t break (at least on the outside).
Then the card house falls and someone is left terrified and with no security of their future.
So, I’ve taken my small knowledge base of online entrepreneurship and am starting my small savings - my own income now.
If not for the fall that might come, but for myself…I’ve lost who I am in the almost two decades of marriage. Perhaps I’ll figure it out on this journey?
At the very least, I’ll slowly start making an income and maintain my safety…and hopefully sanity.
