(May 24, 2015 at 8:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Your sister is probably already feeling the stress. People are no where near as good at hiding stuff as they think they are. Your options are limited by distance to simply providing moral support when possible.
It is unlikely that this is a passing fad. They have probably been bouncing the idea around for a while. Oddly, financial issues are likely to get worse in the aftermath of divorce not better. If you get the chance you might point that out.
With posts like that, you are really adding credibility to my posts about you that you hate.
Anyway, you are right, that divorce is likely to make things financially worse. Although the old saying, two can live as cheaply as one, is not true, it is true that two can live much more cheaply together than they can apart.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
