The Book
Money, Marriage & Motherhood
How Not to Get F*cked Over
What every woman can't afford not to know
What if the most loving thing you could do for your relationship was to talk about the things that could end it?
About the Book
In Money, Marriage & Motherhood, Liz Harrington draws on sixteen years of coaching women through financial upheaval and trauma, rebuilding, and latterly the practical as well as emotional realities of divorce. Coupled with her own mistakes, experience and learning, she now maps out exactly what every woman needs to know about money, marriage and motherhood, before life makes the decision for them.
Liz loves coaching and healing clients. But she wants to do more to prevent the epidemic of future financial poverty that is the ticking time bomb for too many divorced and separated women. This is her effort to reach future clients before they're in crisis, so they might never need her healing services, or at least can afford them if they do.
This isn't a book about doom and gloom. And while Liz is a feminist, it isn't an anti-man rant either, in fact, men benefit deeply from reading it too. Money, Marriage & Motherhood is a book about teamwork and partnership, honest conversations and easy, step-by-step action. About making sure that whatever happens, you're never left starting from zero. Clear, direct and very honest, it's the guide Liz wishes someone had handed her thirty years ago.
What's Inside
Ten parts. One straightforward journey through everything you were never taught.
01
Why you need this book
You think you don't need these conversations. You almost certainly do. Liz's own story, and why forewarned really is forearmed.
02
Why we are where we are
The gender divide, traditional roles and responsibilities, and how they quietly decide who ends up financially exposed.
03
What your marriage vows really mean
For richer, for poorer. In sickness and in health. Till death us do part. What the small print actually costs, and the myth of the "common law spouse."
04
Money personalities & money programming
Saver or splurger? Understanding how you and your partner were each shaped to relate to money, and what to do about it, together.
05
A simple financial freedom plan
Practical, step-by-step actions and the conversations to have now, not after.
06
Motherhood, parenthood & the bigger picture
Careers, caregiving and the conversations about children that couples so often skip.
07
If it all goes wrong, and what comes next
A clear checklist for separating well, an honest look at the future of divorce, and Liz's wish for you.
From the Book
"You are not broken. The way women are so often prepared, or not prepared, for relationships, money, and their own identity is what's broken."
The Author; Liz Harrington
Everything in this book, Liz has lived. A marriage, a separation, and the eighteen months that followed it taught her, the hard way, everything she wishes someone had told her first.
Sixteen years on, she has turned that experience into a body of work helping women recover, rebuild and, increasingly, prepare before crisis ever arrives.
A Thank You
Every reader gets a free gift.
As a thank you for reading, you'll find something waiting for you at the link below.
Continuing the Conversation
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This book is the beginning. Before You Give It All Away is the 8-week experience built to accompany it, helping you turn every chapter into action.