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Let's Not Reduce Everything to Numbers: An Antidote to the Unsatisfying Way We Account for Our Existence

By Brenda Knowles|2015-09-22T16:07:16-05:00January 20th, 2012|Categories: Emotions and Energy, Introverts and Highly Sensitive People, Processing Divorce|Tags: dividing assets in divorce, John T. Unger, love and money, quantifying life, self-worth, surviving divorce, Uncertainty:Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance, zero sum game|

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. ~ Mother Teresa One of the hardest things about divorce is seeing everything reduced to numbers. Credit cards, bank accounts and insurance policies are quantifiable representations of an existence thrown in a pile, divvied up or shut down. [...]

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