Katie Phang is stating that her mother told her to have money stashed away.

[kimbutgar]

22. My Mother always told me to stash money away

When I married the first time I had a stock account with some stocks worth about $10,000. My ex kept trying to get the account put in a joint name. I earned that money before we married. So I made sure I kept the mailing address of the statements sent to my parents accounts and I kept the name of the account with my maiden name. It was a form of conflict with me and him at the time. The stock market had a big downturn and I told him I lost all the money from the account. Of course I didn’t. When we finally divorced he demanded I show him the statements but my attorney said he had no right to the account since I had it before we married and never made any transactions the 3 years we were together.

Even now being married over 35 years I still have some money stashed away only in my name.