I Write an Advice Column About Relationships and Money [Video]

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I’ve been advising strangers on the internet for over two years now on my weekly Business Insider column, For Love & Money. Some questions break my heart, others infuriate me, and others hit so close to home that I recognize, even as I respond, that my advice is as much for me as it is for the reader.

The questions I get are about money, and they highlight the ways that financial planning overlaps with the most important parts of life. As a mother of three children, the letters that often feel the most personally resonant are the ones seeking parenting advice.

Even though I haven’t encountered all of the predicaments my readers bring to me yet, …