My Husband Told Me to Turn the Car Around on the Way to a Family Reunion. What We Learned Changed Everything.

The money came and went like weather, unpredictable and uncontrollable. What never changed was the spending, the performance, the desperate maintenance of an image that had nothing to do with reality.

I once asked my father, when I was maybe eight or nine, why we didn’t save money during the good times to prepare for the bad ones. He’d looked at me continue reading …