I work at a health vocation school, which offers training in things like massage therapy, medical assistant, medical secretary, etc. A woman came in to enroll for the massage therapy class. While she was filling out the forms, she talked about how her husband died in a car crash leaving her and her 8-year-old kid, he had no life insurance, and she had to move in with her parents. She had stayed home with the kid until then, and although she had a degree in English, she was starting from scratch. Thank goodness she had her parents. Poor woman, losing her husband was hard enough. Having to totally reconfigure her life and go into juggling mode is extra stress.
Ladies, especially stay at home moms or women who don't work outside of the home, but please look after yourselves. Even dependent people aren't definite. Always have a backup plan, or a job skill, or something of your own that could fall back on in case of an emergency. Don't even feel 100% safe with a life insurance policy, because he might not die. He might leave you, he might go into a long coma a la Terri Schiavo, he might die after racking up a fortune in medical bills that sucks up a large portion of the insurance.
This woman has made me appreciate what I have, and what I have done to secure myself. I have sworn that I will never assume that I'll always have someone to know what to do.



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