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10 keeps your payments the early years more affordable, but compressing your principal into a shorter window, say 20 or 25 instead of 30 years. That means the morgage payment balance remains unchanged for all the years you're paying the interest portion since your not paying down the principle amount you borrowed. When interest only ends the net effect is the monthly morgage payments take a noticeable leap forward.

The worst relationships are those in which partners are unhappy with their lives and their careers. If he is a stay at home dad, appreciate the fact that he is stepping out of the traditional role to be a caregiver to your children, managing duties and chores and obligations that you would otherwise be on the hook for or have to pay for.

Human nature strongly favors self-preservation. It's the reason people fear flying but not driving, even though statistically speaking one is 60 times more likly to die in a car crash than in a plane. It's all about control.