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When Did You Realize there was a trust fund?
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Anonymous
| 19:24 OP was not joking. |
Anonymous
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OP, if you really need to divorce, lowering standards of living from "comfortable" to "livable" will seem like a good deal.
I am not judging your personal situation, and wish you the best, but it seems to me that too many people shed their partners without realizing that a marriage is a constant disequilibrium that needs sacrifices in order to work. |
Anonymous
It's just an observation. |
Anonymous
Thanks. |
Anonymous
I was half-joking |
Anonymous
| Since no one I know has ever been willing to personally share the proceeds of such fund with me...I don't give a crap about it |
Anonymous
Wow, you sound bitter. No wonder your husband is no longer maintaining a relationship with you. Name calling, coveting, greed. Sheesh. |
Anonymous
Is there some truth in this though? Oprah's never gonna marry Steadman... |
Anonymous
That's because she's carpet munching Gayle, not because she's so wealthy. Everyone knows this. |
Anonymous
Me? (I'm 23:05) I'm in my mid forties. DH and I are not wealthy, we don't even work frickin hard, we have a pretty mellow life I'd have to say. Time for each other and to enjoy our families. We don't have a lot and I don't have all that great a career at the moment, SAH for years, live in a cheap house somewhere trust fund babies don't even drive through, I'm sure. We've been married 15 years and been together tlonger than that. I won't say there's a ton of passion anymore, but we love each other and we love our life. Kids in public school, wear handmedowns, have to budget. It's not a rich lifestyle, but WOW, at least we aren't so miserably rich that we envy people with trust funds because they can ..... get a divorce. Life's too short for that kind of envy. |
Anonymous
It is obvious way before parenthood. No job, forever working on dissertation, always able to pay rent, or qualify for new apartment, or get new car, afford concert tickets, eat out, travel, the best things in life. But plead poverty constantly. 
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Anonymous
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22:53
Forget the people with trust funds. Are you seriously on the verge of divorce? Crossed the point of no return? If so, you will survive. Yes it means scaling back. Good luck. |
Anonymous
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Wow OP, you seem to harbor a lot of resentment towards people with trust funds. Perhaps you should be upset with their parents or grandparents for even starting one for them in the first place. I mean, how awful for parents to save money to provide their children with a good life!
Just so you know, I am a "trust fund baby". I live comfortably, but you would never know I am one unless I flat out told you. I was made to go to school, and I was working two jobs while I did so. I still work as does my non-trust fund husband. I do not get part of my trust fund until I am 40. Then 50. Then 60. Maybe instead of getting so upset about having to earn money the "old fashioned way", you can think about starting up a trust fund for your kids, but teaching them that they still have to work and earn for themselves. Jealousy is not a nice thing. Worry about you and yours. |
Anonymous
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Wash you can't get divorced because you don't have a trust fund. And you couldn't get divorced if DH had a trust fund, because the trust would likely recent it
So the way I see it, the only place to point the blame for your predicament (other than the obvious) is your parents, who failed to provide you with the means to pay for your failed marriages. |
Anonymous
| Before my in-laws died they set up a trust fund from the proceeds of the sale of their house and hard earned savings to help support my BIL who has mental issues and cannot work. My DH takes care of his brother and helps administer the trust. My DH and I who have worked very hard to obtain our education and money, love to joke about the "trust fund" as it is such an alien concept to us. So not all trust funds allow a great lifestyle -- or divorce. |