Two people recall losing everything in the 2008 financial crash while raising young children. One adopted a robotic, task-focused survival mode; the other fell into depression. They describe the emotional strain and role shifts that came with rebuilding from scratch.
I wonder if you can reflect back on the prior to having the system to post how you felt in the relationship to money.
Going back, then you're going before smartphones, plus we had young children and I was very busy, so it's hard for me to even remember that. I start to think about those conversations after the sort of crash and when we lost everything and we sort of had to rebuild. I remember that time for me, very robotic in a way because I knew what to do. You didn't know what to do.
I went into depression. No, 2008.
Yeah. And you, you were shaken, shaken to your core. And I was like, we had 3 young kids and I went into survival mode and I felt, I guess, comfortable. I knew what to do. I knew what to do. I remember saying to you, I can't keep going on the roller coaster with you on this, on what are we going to do? Because I think also I just really trusted you to figure it out because you're just so driven and hard worker and were already like forming plans and things. And even if they— I didn't understand them because I didn't at that time. I did not understand where your brain was going with it. I just trusted you. But I needed these kids to be okay. So I know how to feed us. I know how to do this. Our paths were going side by side at that time. We were united, but we also had two very different jobs to do.
