MillennialAcademicScientist (or MAS) wrote to us when this blog was just a tiny fledging collection of articles back in 2017. What made her story stand out was her background. Like me, she had grown up in poverty, had a traumatic childhood, and as such developed a very fear-based relationship with money. We both knew that while money didn’t always buy happiness, lack of money definitely created misery. Lack of money is what traps you in abusive homes, forced to endure being chained to an abusive relationship (in my case, my mother) with no way to escape. As soon as I […]