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Welcome everybody to part two of Financial Abuse.

Last Sunday I did a podcast with Sarah on Financial Abuse and to say that we got very interesting responses is to put it mildly.

I think one of the best ways to express the responses that we got is to let me read you a few letters, a few emails so that you can hear it directly from the women themselves.

Here's one of the emails that I got.

Took me years to realize why my mother held three jobs during our childhood.

And what the consequences were to her life, that my father wasn't a fexed stealing her income from the family year after year after year.

I don't think either of them would have put it in those terms.

I hadn't thought about my mother working so hard, saving pennies for a long time.

This was for my woman who was 75 years of age now.

So obviously her mother would be quite old, but it's interesting how a podcast, how a podcast, simply talking about financial abuse.

Conjures up memories, memories that you've actually forgotten, that you didn't have the answer to.

Questions that you did not have the answers to years ago about your own family's life, or about your own life, and somehow you suppressed them.

You didn't think about them, even though they didn't make sense to you.

And then you hear, like I said, a podcast about financial abuse, and you start realizing that even within your own family, your own father financially abused you, your mother, your family by stealing money.

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