Erika Jones, CFO, CCTAProfit First Professionals · Certified Fractional CFO and Profit First Professional

Money & Relationships - Can Your Relationship Survive if You Lose it All? #themoneyhabit #money

12 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this candid conversation, two partners reflect on how the 2008 financial crash and the loss of their assets forced them to rebuild their lives and test the resilience of their marriage. Speaker A describes entering a pragmatic, survival‑mode mindset while caring for three young children, feeling confident about the steps needed to recover. Speaker B recounts slipping into depression after the collapse. The dialogue explores the emotional contrast between their coping styles, the pressures of parenting under financial strain, and the trust Speaker A places in Speaker B’s driven, hard‑working nature to navigate the crisis.

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 to depression. No. 2008.
Yeah. And you, you were shaken. Shaken to your core. And I was like. We had three 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.
We'Re 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.