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- From: tps@jptcs.COM (Tim Sailer)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Money and the Single World (was: Education and the Single World
- Message-ID: <5733@jptcs.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:13:34 GMT
- References: <1e5l9pINN96r@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU>
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- Sandra Loosemore (loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu) wrote:
- : Well, this is a pleasant fiction, IMHO. "It shouldn't be a problem" until
- : you split up, and then you're totally screwed. I've known friends who've
- : gone through some *extremely* nasty divorces that were complicated by this
- : kind of naiveity in handling their financial arrangements. E.g., one
- : spouse found that the other had totally cleaned out their joint bank
- : accounts, trashed his credit rating, and had a restraining order preventing
- : him from trying to reclaim any of their other joint assets (furniture,
- : car, etc.) pending the divorce settlement. Similar financial problems can
- : occur in the case of death of a spouse.
- :
- : Love isn't a substitute for common sense when it comes to money. CYA
- : and visit a lawyer before you do anything as stupid as getting
- : married!
-
- Sorry... too late... been married and divorced. I guess I'm one of the
- weirdos that think you should go into marriage like it WILL last forever.
- If you go into it taking precautions against 'if or when' it breaks up,
- it's a planned failure from the start! My Ex tried to clean me out, and
- did a pretty good job of it. But HECK!!! It's only money! I have a job
- and drive and ambition, and in 2 years from the divorce I'll be better
- off then before the divorce. I guess I have a different way of looking
- at marriage. My parents were married, and, IMHO, had the ideal one until
- 'death did them part' when my Dad was killed. I'd like any future relation-
- ship I have to be like this. I'm not talking about dating/live-in. That
- should always be treated as temporary.
-
- Those are just my views, but I'll stubbornly stick to them <donning flame
- proof underwear>.
-
- : -Sandra the cynic
-
- Tim the weirdo romantic
-
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