FYI: WHEN I MARRIED for the first time, I didn’t think much about it. I was in my 20s. My new husband (and future ex-husband) and I had already been living together for nearly a decade. Neither of us had any items of real value, so the financial implications of joining our lives meant very little. Marriage, it seemed, was just the obvious next step in our relationship.
When I married for the second time, I couldn’t stop thinking about the implications. Emotionally, I didn’t want to make the same mistakes I made in my first marriage. Financially, my husband and I each entered into our relationship with considerable assets. Having lost half of a lucrative state-funded pension plan in my divorce, the financial risks of remarriage weighed heavily on my mind.
Regards,
Ted
https://humbledollar.com/2019/08/nervous-bride/
