“What tips do you have for other singles that can help them with their own financial wellness?” Live somewhere affordable; your income will go down a bit, but your living expenses–and taxes–will go down faster. Always be networking; the best jobs are never advertised (or, if they’re advertised for legal reasons, any résumés received go straight to the circular file) because they’re filled through employee referrals and/or headhunters. Avoid anything that might involve lawyers, and buy lots of insurance against things you can’t avoid.
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Peter Krieger Says:
January 24th, 2011 at 12:26 am
My $0.02:
Marriage is a bad deal for both parties, but since I am only on one side of that battle, I will comment on what I know.
I tend to speak in generalities and trends, as opposed to absolutes, so that is the tone I wish to set.
Men are the primary breadwinners while their partners (parenting is a completely different dimension) long for the day they can call it quits and spend time spending other peoples’ (usually their husbands’) money.
From what I have seen (and I have not seen all that much, but it’s significant to me) is that women become dissatisfied with relationships more quickly than men do; probably our cultural inclination towards immediate gratification is a major contributing factor but I am not a sociologist, so let’s leave it at that.