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You are right - and that is exactly I'm trying to say. People do make that mistake and organize their life in such way to connect wealth with relationship/healt
by sdizdar 15y ago
You are right - and that is exactly I'm trying to say.
People do make that mistake and organize their life in such way to connect wealth with relationship/health (maybe based on society, how they are raised, I don't know). And then their relationship suffers when one of partners loses a job or anything bad happens in the material world. It should be other way around: relationship should be stronger when resources get scare.
And I agree it is very hard to separate these issues... I guess one needs to be "indoctrinated" as a child.
- ryanwaggoner 15y agoAh, I see what you're saying. I guess I just don't think that's possible. Yes, we could be better about separating these things to some extent, but not completely. Losing everything you own is incredibly stressful, and stress is damaging to health and relationships, period. Similarly, the dissolution of a marriage always results in a net decrease in wealth for the combined parties, at least in the short term. And battling health issues is damaging to both relationships and your financial situation, on average. This is just human nature. "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger", but sadly, a lot of things actually do kill you (or your health, 401k, marriage, etc). Furthermore, a big part of the correlation you see between relationships, health, and wealth are due to very similar "life management" skillsets being required for them all. It's obviously not perfect correlation, but it's there for a reason. Just my .02, though :)