![]() And we can fight back, chasing the unfair person or company or situation and get revenge. We can choose to focus on how unfair the situation is, how we were right and we tried our best and the world still mistreated us. Life is full of hardships.īut throughout all of it, we always have a choice about how to deal with them. Relationships and friendships and dealing with bossy or dysfunctional friends or family or parents, personal habits and addictions, and everything else. School and jobs are hard, and money is really hard for most people. Having babies of your own is even harder. Being born and going through childhood is hard. Because divorce, especially with children and family and traditions involved, is really fucking hard.īut guess what? There are a lot of things in life that are hard. I’m not going to sit here and pretend that there weren’t plenty of harsh moments for both of us, both before and during this experience, with plenty more still to come. But only if you choose to accept that key and put it to use. See, even the harshest moments come with a little golden key taped secretly onto their side, which you can use to unlock personal growth and greater future happiness. And I would venture to say that both of us parents are going to come out of the experience much better off than we were before. The good news is that we have had about the most amicable separation that one could hope for, we all still spend plenty of time together and our son is still in the same loving environment he has always had. MM has always been an independent-minded person who is good with money and decides on her own spending. We spent whatever we wanted, we just happened to have finite desires. And no, there were no frugality issues because earning and accumulating money was always extremely easy for us. I was the one who asked for the separation so you can blame me for it. Update: Some of the negative speculators have assumed “your wife dumped you because you were too frugal.” This part may be necessary to address because of the money theme of this blog. And when this happens, not even the greatest advantages of a lifetime money surplus or a supportive network of great friends and family or living in a beautiful place can save you. ![]() Sometimes people just grow apart over the decades and no matter how much they work at the relationship, find that they want different things from life. The downfalls of our own relationship are personal and not something we choose to make public, but you’ve heard it all before anyway. Although we had been drifting this way for a while, the formal change of our status is still less than a year old, so it’s still a topic that deserves some quiet respect*. Money Mustache and I are no longer married. So if you haven’t already heard through the rumor mill, the former Mrs. Because sometimes life just serves up a shit salad and we don’t have a choice in the matter, but we always have a choice of how to respond to it. With all of this happening, it’s a wonder that we can remain happy and productive and even thrive as humans. And all around you, there will be a sea of fighting and breakups and divorces and mismatched relationships that you wish would end, for your sake or that of your best friends. Kids will have plenty of trouble on their long road to adulthood – if they even make it. ![]() You or your loved ones will get sick and some of them will die. Even in the most carefully run and financially independent of lives, there will be some wrenching twists and turns.įriendships and businesses will fail.
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