Loving Your Wife

I’m Miriam Neff and I’m Valerie Neff Hogan with Wise Women Managing Money.

M My friend has a dilemma.  A couple he cares deeply about does not have their finances in order.  Actually, they have great wealth:  here, there, this drawer, that stock, this fund, that investment.  Husband doesn’t have a list of these, and his wife knows little about it.  My friend can’t get him to make a list. 

V I suggest he ask his friend, ‘Do you love your wife?’ ‘Then devote yourself to document, and organize for her sake.’  Include her in the process.  Otherwise, you’ll leave her alone, scared, and vulnerable to fraud.  In 8 of 10 marriages, the husband will depart this planet before his wife. Do you love her?  Then inform, protect, and provide her with information.