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When immediate survival conflicts with long-term planning

I withdrew money from my retirement to pay rent and I know it was stupid but I did not know what else to do, and now I feel like I failed my future self.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Crisis decision-making forces choices between present necessity and future security that feel like betrayals of temporal responsibility to oneself.

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“Where Are You with Recessions and financial crises — what they are?”

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