MARK KOHLERMain Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, LLC · Owner at Main Street Professionals, LLC

Marriage Comes Before Finances…

24 Nov 2025 · 0 min

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In this brief advisory segment, Mark Kohler stresses that when a marriage is in crisis, individuals should pause their current financial ambitions—such as building wealth, acquiring assets, or pursuing aggressive growth strategies—until the relationship issues are resolved. He outlines two primary courses of action: either end the marriage ("rip the cord") or work to repair it, potentially through a postnuptial agreement. Kohler advises against advancing any financial planning or investment activities until the personal situation is stabilized.

Hey, if the marriage is on the rocks, you really need to kind of put the financial dream and journey you're on right now on hold for a minute. Because building, growing, acquiring all this stuff that you want to do, because they're coming to see me to build a trifecta and a strategy and save Jack and go boom, boom. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. If your marriage is on the rocks, you either got to rip the cord and be done with it. Yeah. Or get it fixed and do a postnup or something. Postnote. I don't want to work on your finances till you got your crap together.
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I think that's exactly right. I mean, you know, what happened a lot of times is the money spouse will have here what we call sibs or sudden income deficiency syndrome, because especially if they're a. An entrepreneur, they play with the money and, you know, they kind of. Oh, you know what? That receivable account, I'm not going to go collect on that right now. I'll just tell the client. Hold on. You know, they play little games like that, but it's usually pretty easy to see that in the forensics process.