I Married a Wealthy 79-Year-Old Woman for Her Money—After She Died, Her Lawyer Slid Me a Cardboard Box and Said, “You Walked Straight Into Her Trap”
The answer is structure.
Transparency.
Independent advice.
Boundaries.
Florence understood that decades before I did.
The prenup I initially interpreted as mistrust eventually became evidence of the opposite.
She wanted the relationship separated from assumptions about property.
She wanted both of us to know what existed.