One More Reason Not To Give Up Your Purse-strings
Like so many of you I’m here watching Grey’s Anatomy and it’s absolutely one of my favorite shows of the season. One scene that stood out to me was where a wife was faced with finding out why her health insurance would expire at midnight, but her husband was in need of emergency surgery. In addition to that, all the credit cards were canceled! Her response when Bailey told her she needed to call the insurance company?
Watch this:
What do you think? Should she have just let her husband only keep an eye on all the important paperwork or should she keep up with this information as well? It turns out that he’d lost his job, been having an affair with her best friend and she usually let’s him take care of all the important “stuff”. So she had no idea what was going on.
Lesson here?
Ladies, please make sure that you know what’s going on with your health insurance policies, life insurance, financial statements and retirement accounts. Oh and in her case, a good divorce lawyer, then again she forgave him, but Ginger, not so much. (Aside: Before you light up my inbox about the virtues of forgiveness, he was going to leave her high and dry with no health insurance or money if he hadnt been in that accident! hmmph!)
Anyhoo, what are your thoughts? Are you giving up the purse-strings in your relationship? I have no problem with a man managing the “important stuff” in a relationship, my issue is with the woman not knowing anything about the day to day issues that may come up. My thoughts are that if she had access and interest around this information she would have known way before this accident that her health insurance would expire and that the credit cards have been canceled.
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