Comment by astura
9 years ago
I worked my ass off to get where I am financially. I grew up with low income, abusive, mentally ill, and alcoholic parents. I wasn't taught hardly any life skills and I had no "connections" of which to speak. I worked hard to get where I am now (I save/invest 70% of my income a year) but I don't for a second discount luck as a big part of it. Someone making similar choices as I did can surely have a different outcome.
Plus the biggest increase in my financial status came from getting married to someone who makes just as much money as I do.
Who you marry is hands down one of the largest factors in your overall financial success. Especially when it comes to the risk of divorce.
Absolutely. Even if we got divorced tomorrow I would be in a much, much better financial situation than if I'd stayed single. My spouse knows that from the other side of things too (was previously married to a lazy mooch for six years)
Part of that goes into the "luck" category as well.