When what we earn decreases through job loss or inflation, we very quickly are unable to leave within our means unless we adjust equally as fast
I call this movement by inertia. It's hard to stop a car at full throttle. It is also psychologically difficult to eat pasta today if, until yesterday, I was eating purely oysters.
Did I really write leave?? Oooppps. My brain knows what it wants to write - my fingers do something different. The words that come out generally sound similar or are said the same - like right and write. As an English teacher for so many years.... this kills me :D
I wonder what goes through people's heads when they "had it all" and ended up losing it. I have met a couple who this has happened to and they tend to do okay, but it depends on how they lost it.