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Sathya Chey Patterson, CFP®, CDFA®, CSRIC®, AIF®

I'm a Wealth Adviser: This Divorce Memoir Describes Painful Financial Mistakes I See All the Time — Here's How You Can Avoid Them

A wedding band sits on top of a calculator that's sitting on grass.

I picked up Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden expecting a juicy divorce memoir. What I got was a thoughtful, sometimes uncomfortable look at how a marriage can unravel so gradually that, by the end, the person you've shared your life with feels almost unrecognizable.

Burden's memoir has all the ingredients of a page-turner: Wealth, privilege, beautiful homes, family dynamics, betrayal and a divorce that becomes increasingly contentious.

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