[quote=NewtoSanDiego]Well, a short update. A bit sobering for me.
My bro and law and sister are now getting a divorce.
The financial strain must have been too much.
I provided moral support thru the past few months, but no financial. After hearing how bad their financial situation was, I figured it was throwing good money after bad.
As a final kick in the gut, my bro-in-law had his BMW repo’ed. He apparently tried to hide it down the street. Got me wondering how many BMW driver on the streets are actual financial basket cases.
Also got me wondering what percent of divorces these days really have their root cause in financial distress. Is there a correlationb between foreclosure rate and divorce rate?
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Apparently, quite a bit. My understanding a lot of divorces trickled in in the beginning of 2010, and most are financial related. I don’t mean to prod, but have your sis and bro in law considered marriage counseling? I just think that there are many reasons for why a divorce would be the answer(cheating spouse/unfaithful/etc)…But it just seems like money shouldn’t be one of them. Money problems are solvable in the longer term, my opinion. Seems like a real waste to let it wreck a marriage/family. (There are plenty of other possibilities for wrecking a marriage, this shouldn’t be one of them 🙁 ).
