Started talking marriage and suddenly my investments don’t feel so clear cut
I’ve spent the better part of the last seven years building up different income streams because I grew up watching money problems ruin people’s lives and I swore I’d never live that way once I got older. Started with dividend investing then added a small rental property and eventually built a little online income on the side too. Nothing flashy but enough where I finally feel stable.
Now I’m getting serious with someone and for the first time I’m realizing I have no clue how marriage changes any of this. A friend of mine went through a divorce last year and what scared me wasn’t even the divorce itself, it was seeing how quickly things that were once clearly hers turned into a giant argument because money had been mixed together over time.
Kind of feels like I spent years carefully stacking bricks just to realize I never checked how solid the foundation underneath was.