How the money provided our marriage to Covid

On the day the World Health Organization announced a global ancient – March 11, 2020 – it happened that our forty -first marriage. Then the virus forced my wife Elvira and I lived up to each other during the next 18 months – I am in New York City, and she is in Italy, the center of skis all over the world.

Fortunately, the survival strategy developed: I talked to it. Oh, we also talked about the family, as well as friends, food and yes, our horrific account with microbes. But I talked about money more than I had in 68 years.

Full disclosure: I had an unequal history with money. Early of my life, when I was a boy, a teenager and a young man, I considered the money largely exaggerated. My family talked about money. Repenting: What was the big deal? After all, my parents and my grandparents paid for everything.

But I just faced a problem with money until I grew up and had to make anything. This is not my opinion quickly. Suddenly I realized – a shock to the regime! You need a legal tender for life.

So throughout the year 2020, I talked about money with Elvira – how much I earned and how much it expected to earn it. I updated it from guaranteed sparing, complete projects, and bills sent.

My reasons for talking about money greatly in that particular year were many. Five months before the epidemic started officially, I left a job that I loved after 12 years, my longest period ever, to open my own consultant. Therefore, I used to a regular salary of profitability for the past 28 years, now a startup, where a full new ball game is spent. I had to bustle in particular to bring every dollar.

I had other reasons. We used to keep families on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, which is an expensive proposal. We have also planned to move to Italy as soon as possible, expensive, and invest in residential real estate. Oh, yes, and I was afraid that the epidemic might kill us.

So earning money for our family is unprecedented. No wonder I talked about a blue series about money with Elvira – about the price of bills per hour in which I became famous, the new customers I fell, the prospects I were dealing with and my expected annual revenues.

As it turned out, the work was good in 2020 despite the epidemic. I fell more than ever in one year in my 45 -year -old career. I was excited about it.

Fortunately, Al -Fira immersed me. You heard me. I think she understood why she talked about money a lot. The more you talk about the money – and the more you make it – the more you feel it towards us all in the face of a pandemic. My position, it seems crazy, I boiled to this: Perhaps we all would die, but I am at least earned money.

No wonder I talked about money a lot. Shock waves were sent from the global economy epidemic. “The Covid-19s has published unprecedented social challenges and disturbances for societies and individuals.”

Some people were severely injured. About three of every 10 American adults said they are worried about almost every day or every day about the payment of debt, 29 % of the ability to save retirement, 27 % worried about paying bills and covering the costs of health care and 19 % of anxiety from billing to obtain rent or mortgage, according to the 2021 PEW Research Center of 10,334 people.

More importantly, the majority of couples (52 %) “found that it is easier to talk about money” with each other, showed that the TD Bank “love and money” 2021.

Just later, after the epidemic retreated in our mass rear vision mirror, I realized another reason, a fundamental reason that spoke to money in the naked and fearful teeth. He came from love – my love for Lalvira, my love for our children and grandchildren, and my love for life. We were supposed to reassure us of everything we could have of disease and death, and to be fine.

Thus, for the first time, I realized that the money is more than just the payment method that is exchanged for the produced goods and the services provided. I have never realized that through money we can express love. This is what I tried to do through the plague: Determine this love through money.

It was as if talking about money, and earned it, would be a vaccine that gives our family immunity against all these fatal fatty causes.

It was as if you were, to earn money for my family, I was saying, “Here you go. This is how much I love you. That’s why I work hard. That’s what I do to make you happy.”

I am still talking about money, but only from time to time. In the end, she managed to move to Italy. We did not reunite our family. We united our families.

The money is still important, and it will always, but the epidemic is over. Almost at the same time, my need to talk about money to get it.