While Cleaning My Husband’s Car, I Accidenta…

I tried to calculate the losses. Not the emotional ones. I couldn’t go there yet. Couldn’t afford to. Not that day.

But the practical ones.

Fourteen years. Two children. A mortgage we had refinanced together three years ago. A joint savings account with $134,000 that I had contributed to just as much as he had. A retirement account in both our names.continue reading …