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Perle's take-home message: stop trying to please other people when your wallet is at stake.
Not a good strategy, Perle discovered when her husband walked out with all the family finances in his name. In the aftermath, Perle was forced to confront her fiscal shortcomings. "Disappointments, reversals, divorce or death have taught us that we have to take direct responsibility for our financial lives," she...
Perle is not a traditional financial writer in the school of Suze Orman but rather a keen psychological observer of her own guilt, magical thinking and emotional dodges when it comes to money. Using herself as an example, she offers rules for how women can resist the fiscal wrongheadedness dragging...
Get Real It took Perle years. "Embarrassed and occasionally unnerved by my own tendency toward erratic fiscal behavior, I've stubbornly refused to examine it, instead choosing to pin my hopes on that white knight, dream job, unknown dead rich uncle, or winning lottery number," she writes.
Keep Your Eye on the Bottom Line Perle says ruefully, "I had drunk the cultural Kool-Aid that told me that having a husband meant social and fiscal security and that I wouldn't have to deal with my own financial well-being."