Personal Finance Episodes

Send us Fan Mail You bought something for yourself last week. Something small. Something completely reasonable. And the guilt arrived before you had even finished paying for it. You are not alone in that. And it is not about money. For many midlife women, spending money on themselves triggers a response that feels almost physical — a tightening, a second-guessing, a quiet voice that asks whether you really needed it, whether you really deserve it, whether you should have spent that mone...