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@GilberteDSL I think it’s possible she didn’t have enough liquid cash to buy him out of both homes and would have to choose one to sell - that was how it read to me. You can be a beneficiary to trusts and not be able to access a ton of money at once.
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Several things can be true:
1. That prenup was probably illegal anyway
2. It is insane that her husband (a lawyer!) hid millions of dollars from her and just assumed he would get away with it
3. She was not actually literally going to lose her house(s)
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Why on earth wouldn't a novelist research what's essentially an unspoken main character in your novel?
ki 🏒🩷🤍🧡@babygirldiazz
I do think an amount of the stuff actual hockey fans get annoyed about is counter intuitive to non sport fans - I never would've thought to Google what teams can play in the finals because I would just assume any teams can make it there
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@cadlymack When I can, I buy both (love a signed copy or special edition) I also have 3 kindles & 2 nooks. The nooks are super old but still work. I actually loan out my kindles because I used to loan out all the books I bought. Now I buy more e-books so that’s what I loan.
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For what it's worth, Amazon makes their money selling the Kindle devices. They barely profit off the books delivered to it -- when it comes to Kindle Unlimited, Amazon often takes a loss. If you already own a Kindle but you're stealing books to read on it, you're not hurting Amazon. They don't care. You're hurting authors.
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If you want to own your media, buy physical copies. If you want to stop supporting Amazon, buy things from small businesses. Stealing from artists isn't a flex, especially now, when AI is already a big enough threat to them.
el@readingfromeden
people who pay for ebooks 😭😭😭 you HAVE to learn to steal i’m so sorry why are you paying for something you can’t physically own
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@megansarahj Also the idea that because she is a beneficiary of other trusts that she can access millions to buy out her ex isn’t necessarily reality. It’s quite possible she didn’t have access to enough liquid cash to buy him out of both homes.
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My hot take: still loved the book. I thought it was more about her realizing you cannot be financially CLUELESS, married or not
The New Yorker@NewYorker
(1/8) Belle Burden’s “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage” tells the story of her divorce and resulting financial imperilment. It’s the runaway publishing phenomenon of the year. But what does it omit? 🧵 newyorkermag.visitlink.me/MkMGTt
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@MillyTamarez @Brieyonce True I should have specified the worst financial part, which seems to be at the heart of this article. The stuff about the kids was absolutely wild and the actual worst.
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@bitsycs @Brieyonce To me the worst part is also that he cheated on her and wanted nothing to do with their kids!!! And their communities judged and shamed HER! Money or not that's crazy !
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@walkeri141 JD Ford is super popular in my district (sadly we are IN4 but I know his senate district crossed over with 5) because he is truly a great representative. He listens and is available, like best elected Rep I’ve ever had. I could see him appealing to IN5 voters. Spartz is bad
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Feel like IN-05 would be a sleeper for this year’s “what the hell” Seat of the midterms
Spartz already gave up 40% to a dude who was running his campaign out of LinkedIn
VinnyTheBozo@BozoVinny
Every midterm a seat or 2 flips (or is extremely competitive) that no one even thought was going to be in play. What are some picks?
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@svershbow Also trusts doesn’t mean she’d have liquid cash to be able to buy him out of both houses without selling. Plus my real terror was her putting his name on both, their prenup and him keeping all his money separate!!
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Am I the only one who always assumed she had other money in trusts and was nowhere near broke and still think she deserves millions from that awful man???
The New Yorker@NewYorker
(1/8) Belle Burden’s “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage” tells the story of her divorce and resulting financial imperilment. It’s the runaway publishing phenomenon of the year. But what does it omit? 🧵 newyorkermag.visitlink.me/MkMGTt
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@MoreOrLessAMess @CarolinaLion2 lol I should post pics of the shelves and garage and closets at my ILs who claim to be frugal. They also have two chest freezers, one stand up freezer and two full size fridge/freezer combos for two people. And 3 cars for two people. It’s nuts
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@CarolinaLion2 My 24 year old son rails about this. He buys shit from boomers on fb marketplace and whenever he goes to pick the shit up, they open their garages to reveal boxes of appliances, tools, camera equipment, household goods, and assorted bullshit while claiming to be frugal
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Because America's Boomers have been the largest economic and voting block in the country for the last several decades. This means the blame for the decline in living standards falls squarely in their lap and they are trying to shift blame by pretending they lived like a monk who took a vow of poverty.
Emerald Oceans@Oceans1Emerald
@CarolinaLion2 We have tv ads and in some cases the actual paper ads from that time period. We have pictures, and yes video, from that period. Why are they trying to revise history like this?
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@MoreOrLessAMess The dumbest thing about America is the fact that this and robust public education would give the biggest return on investment across a wide variety of issues but we are too racist and classist (and too dumb to realize the rich are pitting us against each other too)
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Hot take: women are 50% of the voting population. If enough of you wanted women to have maternity leave, we'd have maternity leave.
But not only are many of you carrying water for the patriarchy, you only want white, middle class and above women to have maternity leave
💗@ma1ybe
Fun fact: It is typically illegal to sell a puppy younger than 8 weeks old because it’s considered cruel to separate it from its mother, but unfortunately corporate America expects women to return to work 4 weeks after giving birth.
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@MoreOrLessAMess @MilesTrav I could terrify people with the pics of the things in my ILs house. I like to take pics of random things and send it to my husband and tell him to get excited for his inheritance
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@MilesTrav Boomers are dying and leaving their children to figure out what to do with the high volume of bullshit they've been hoarding since 1992 but I'm meant to believe they didn't buy anything more than necessary?
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Boomers always ate out, that is why every restaurant exploded during their time.
They also subscribed to magazines, social clubs, bought tons of useless Knick knacks, fell for every dumb TV infomercial, filled their garages with useless clutter.
They were horrible with money.
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@walkeri141 It pisses me off because that corrupt idiot was fine to them for YEARS but now it’s not. Like if he’s not ok today he wasn’t ok for four years, come on.
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Ngl it’s really funny to watch the entire IN GOP abandon Morales overnight, but that’s obviously the smart political decision.
A Banks supported candidate without any scandal makes this race a snooze given his political muscle in the state.
Kayla Dwyer@kayla_dwyer17
NEW: @Jim_Banks and @ToddRokitaIN are rescinding their endorsements of @cdiegomorales and are urging him to suspend his campaign for Secretary of State.
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@bitsycs Yeah, I think most middle class moms had a diet soda of choice they drank like a fish, high off caffeine now that mommy's little pharmaceutical helpers had fallen out of fashion
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I'm so stuck on this because if soda was such a luxury, what was up with the cola wars?
Michael Jackson famously suffered serious burns filming a Pepsi commercial. Soda was as ubiquitous as breakfast cereal ffs.
Free Northerner@FreeNortherner
Yes. Soda was a luxury until the mid-2000s. It was something you'd have for family movie night on Fridays and birthdays. Prior to the ~90s, it was even more rare. Drinking soda with every meal wasn't normal until fairly recently. It is a small luxury but a luxury.
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@MoreOrLessAMess Yeah I think that was totally common. My mom was definitely unique - we only had options for water, milk, and lemonade (country time shout out) that was more watered down than the powder container called for. If we had juice (rare) it was half or 3/4 water with a splash of juice
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@bitsycs I also had a decent amount of friends and relatives who had soda in their homes.
And when I think back on when I couldn't have it, I was usually given something fairly sweet instead.
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@MoreOrLessAMess For sure. And it wasn’t a luxury for my mom to buy Diet Coke. Or all my friends who had tons of soda options at their houses. My mom was just before her time when it came to sugar lol. She’d fit right in now.
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@bitsycs I think the primary difference is in how people are defining luxury. To me, it's something most people would have rarely access to, a limited treat and while I didn't drink soda at home at all and it wasn't the choice eating out when I was really young, I did drink it frequently
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@MoreOrLessAMess @BraddrofliT Also a lot of them probably say “I want to be a mom” not even necessarily a stay at home mom because they love their moms and want to be their moms and play with dolls/babies or have younger siblings and enjoy being helpful.
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@BraddrofliT But also, they are 5. They barely know what jobs are.
If this were 5th graders, this would be concerning but most of these kids were at home with mom full time just 9 months ago. Yes, the girls wanna be her.
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75% of kindergarten girls giving the exact same answer isn’t “southern culture” it sounds a lot more like early social conditioning.
There’s nothing wrong with being a stay-at-home mom. The problem is acting like little girls should aspire to only one path before they can even spell “career.”
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@HammerAndRails @TheGK3 Travis’s uncle went to Purdue I believe. There was something this fall where he and his college buddies went to a Chiefs game and Taylor reportedly dubbed them the “purdudes”
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I need a recording of Taylor Swift singing Hail Purdue. @TheGK3
Johnboy@theJB1987
@HammerAndRails Did they sing Hail Purdue?
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@DashaBurns @politico @JamesBlair47 Thinking Indiana’s results were solely about people desperate for redistricting is very funny.
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NEW: @JamesBlair47, who is leaving the WH to run Trump's midterms operation, tells me the admin’s strategy is simple: "attack, attack, attack."
Blair says Republicans see a "robust appetite" for redistricting fights after Indiana and predicts a "substantial swing of seats" for the GOP. He argues Dems are "tied up in a complete ideological party split" while Republicans stockpile cash and avoid messy primaries.
Notably, Blair didn't defend the admin's handling of the war and economy, and instead says the White House plans to hammer Democrats as "woke, weak and way too liberal."
More from my interview in @playbookdc ⬇️
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@MoreOrLessAMess Yup! I can think of a lot of reasons - travel, time difference, plans, etc - but considering she’s on the internet complaining…
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@bitsycs I can think of a slew of reasons, and not all of them nefarious as to why mom would have gotten just a text. But given she's whining about it online instead of just calling these kids... well, I'm guessing they have their reasons
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I've got heat for inattentive/emotionally neglectful husbands and fathers all day but when it comes to the adult kids....
Like what's going on in the dynamic that you feel slighted here? Maybe they "matched your energy" first.
👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈@TheEXECUTlONER_
This mother said all she got for Mother’s Day was Happy Mother’s Day texts from her 18 and 20 year old kids. So she said she is going to match their energy and when it comes time she is just going to text them Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday this year and that’s it. She said she’s not complaining and loves them to death but she is ready to meet them where they are at now in their life. She said she is sick of going above and beyond for them and basically getting nothing in return. So no more whatever they want gifts, no more money, etc. Sounds a little bit to me like complaining. 🤷♂️ What do you think? Do you think she’s right in handling it this way? Do you think that’s a fair way to handle it? Or do you think she’s overreacting and they are just typical young adults? Do you do things for your kids expecting the same in return?
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