💰How a broken engagement opened my eyes

Dec 10, 2025

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Hi there,

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about an incident that completely reshaped the way I think about money and independence.

A few years ago, I met a woman who had just gone through a broken engagement.
She had been living with her fiancé, and without realizing it, she had slowly built her entire life around him - emotionally, financially, practically.

She depended on him for everything.

And when the relationship ended, her world collapsed overnight.

Suddenly, she had no income, no plan, no sense of direction.
She moved back in with her family, feeling like she had to rebuild her whole life from scratch.

And the hardest part wasn’t the heartbreak. It was realizing she’d given up her financial independence and now had nothing to fall back on.

That experience opened my eyes to something I wish more people talked about:
You should never be fully dependent on someone else for your survival.

This isn’t about avoiding relationships. It’s not about being guarded or refusing support.
It’s about making sure you can stand on your own two feet, no matter what life throws at you. Because relying 100% on someone else financially puts you at risk in ways love can’t always fix.

Everyone needs:

An income they can depend on
Skills they can take anywhere
Savings that belong to them
A plan that doesn’t disappear if a relationship does

And while this story hits especially hard for women who are often encouraged to pause careers, stay home, or sacrifice opportunities, the truth is it applies to all of us.

Partnership is beautiful. Teamwork is powerful.
But independence? That’s essential.

The goal isn’t to do life alone. The goal is to be whole enough that if life changes, you’re still standing.

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- Milan and Team

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