Divorce books/resources recommendations

Midwest67
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:03:37 +0000

@PNWedwonk wrote:

“…She gave us the assignment to create post marriage budgets which I thought was not particularly helpful. Personally, I budget by looking at my income and then figuring out how to spend that or less. It didn’t seem helpful for us both to list possible expenses without knowing what we had to spend. Maybe she intended to show me that it would be more difficult to live on only my income with no shared expenses?..”

I did this. A post marriage budget. I started with looking at modest studios and one bedroom apartments in relatively safe areas, relatively close to work, and then added in other expenses to my spreadsheet. It was sobering.

For our situation, the drop in standard of living (from not a very high standard of living to begin with!) is a major hurdle to divorcing.

So, yes, maybe the financial advisor was seeing if the two of you had “run the numbers”.