Hey y'all, I am Marie-Michrace, host of This is Un Comfortable, a podcast from Marketplace

about our feelings and our money.

And some of the money stuff we have the most feelings about, well, we tend to keep secret.

I called my dad and he was basically like, oh no, you weren't supposed to know about

that.

This season of This is Un Comfortable, we are putting some big money secrets on blast.

We're told some of those secrets are supposed to stay in the family.

Secrets on this magnitude would never be disclosed.

You take it to the grave.

Or yeah, they never get told at all.

We want to still be able to provide a very comfortable life for our kid.

We don't want them to see us worrying about money.

And then they're then not so private secrets.

The ones a lot of us share, but are maybe reluctant to talk about, like the cost of divorce.

You know how much money they wanted me to give $100 a month?

That was one third of what I was getting in my paycheck.

That's ridiculous.

And it was permanently meaning for life.

Or the cost of getting the care you desperately need.

You almost feel crazy because these all these doctors that you've seen can't find anything

that's wrong with you.

And it's frustrating because now you're spending all this money and time and trying to figure

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