If you’re drowning you can’t be saved by someone else who’s drowning worse than you. There’s this annoying fallacy promoted by Hollywood and all the pulp romance novelists that, in the absence of Prince/Princess charming, two peasants can save each other. Sure I guess if they’re happy being peasants in love. But if the goal is to live in an enchanted castle, or even just a cottage that’s paid for, someone’s gotta foot the bill. Two peasants in debt will only drag each other down harder.
In the real world, not Disney fiction, those of us who are stuck in the shit are each looking to […]

