Belle Burden
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But my then-fiancé said, first he was very offended by the prenup, and then he asked two weeks before our wedding that the prenup be changed to say that anything earned during the marriage would not be split unless we affirmatively chose to put it in joint name.
And I trusted his logic.
I wanted to please him.
My lawyer, who was a great lawyer at a big New York firm, said, do not do this.
This is not good for you.
You want to be home with kids.
He's going into finance.
This is not smart.
And I convinced him using the arguments that my fiancé was giving to me.
And we changed it.
And I knew as he became wealthier and I depleted my assets and put them...
into joint name in the form of our house and our apartment.
Lord.
That this was not going to be good for me.
But yet I did not act on it.
I just kept trusting.
You felt it, though.
I felt it.
I knew it was there.
I knew it was there, and I felt it.