Periagoge
Scenario

When couples are financially squeezed between inflation and aging parents

My spouse and I are both seeing our real wages effectively cut by inflation while our elderly parents on both sides need increasing financial help, and we're caught between supporting them and protecting our own future retirement. We haven't been honest with anyone about how unsustainable this is becoming.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Middle-generation couples face impossible arithmetic between their own financial survival and intergenerational care obligations.

Your guide for this
Zera
Zera works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Inflation — causes effects and living with it?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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