After separating from my marriage about 3 years ago now, I became the only one looking at my finances. During my marriage, my ex took the initiative to organize our finances. I mostly concerned myself with making as much money as possible, and hoping for the best. Really my attitude about money belied a deep insecurity of mine.
I’ve never been comfortable with finances, and I’ve since realized it may be connected to being time-blind. I mean, time is money right? So if my brain has trouble knowing even roughly what time it is right now, it isn’t a stretch to think it’ll have trouble tracking the allocation of my savings over time intervals like years and decades.
But not knowing any different, I assumed I was just less interested in financial planning than my ex was. It just wasn’t clear why I was so triggered by even talking about long term finances.
Now I’m fully responsible for my own finances, and I’m facing some grim realities.
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