I went to a presentation by a Raymond James financial advisor at a local library in the four years between my separation and finally getting a divorce. His presentation was about gaining control of finances during the divorce.
I asked him to sit in on the final mediation since my lawyer was not offering much advice. In that mediation he cut through the numbers and boiled it down to simple straight forward facts.
After all was said and done, he now helps me in keeping track of those finances through these rough times.
Since the divorce work, keeps coming into my studio despite the pandemic. In the four years of waiting for the divorce to finalize, I learned how to hunker down to keep expenses low. Now that the pandemic has kicked in that war mentality of hunkering down continues.