Protect Your Loved ones on Valentine's Day

[markrosenthal]

http://youdoitforlove.org/

Protect those you love with life insurance this Valentine's Day

The Life Foundation has some cool things on their website that you should check out.

This is also from them:

Because he loved me,

He did the dishes
Rubbed my feet
Surprised me with tulips
Took me to musicals even though he didn't like them
Carried my bags while I did the shopping
Held my hand.

He Died of cancer four years ago.

Because he loved me,
I can stay in our home.
I can be here for our children.
I can afford to pay for their college education.
I can worry about the other things in life besides money.

He still loves me. And he still shows it.

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Life insurance is mostly about love and planning. This is a true experience and a piece I wrote after the experience:

A few months ago I was at an Auto Repair Shop. As I was waiting, a woman in her late 40’s to early 50’s walked in with a friend asking to have a tire repaired. As I studied her face I could see she looked tired and drained, as if she carried a great load. The service manager had the car pulled in, went out into the shop returning a few minutes later with the news that the tire was unrepairable and that she needed four tires on her car because they were all bald and worn out.

The woman’s friend stepped in a quickly explaining that the woman’s husband had just died from cancer. All her money had been spent on the funeral and she had no money and no job. All the husband had left her was medical bills, debt, and a car with worn out tires. He said friends and family had been helping out as much as possible but they were tapped out.

When the service manager heard this he offered to install four good used tires the size the woman needed for only $20 each. The woman said she would be back on Monday but would only replace two tires because it was all she could afford and she couldn’t get the $40.00 until then. My heart was sad as I listened and watched this scenario. The woman was slump shouldered and she left the shop.

What disturbed me most was this thought: When she was married her husband was this what she saw as her future? Was this the plan? Was this the way her husband had intended to leave her? Did he want her to remember him only for leaving her with a pile of debt, no way to pay the bills, no income, and four bald tires on the car?