This is why Mr. Traveler and I both know everything about our finances and how things are set up (well, maybe not the $100 I once won in a basketball bracket, but you know). It's why we went ahead and prepaid our funerals, and made sure our son knows where all our papers are.
I saw an old magazine ad with a man walking out with a suitcase, and a crying woman-obviously the left wife. The caption? "Because you weren't fresh enough!"
You didn't ask Sophie's opinion when you shuttled her off to boarding school so you could chase around the world, Shekinah. By now, she's her own person, what does it matter to you?
Anecdote: We were in Costco, and it was flashback to 2020. Basic stuff, too: TP, bread, canned veggies, my French cookies...It must be fear of the economic shake-ups.