role: user

text:
can we rewrite this sentence, i'm having trouble understanding it:

But I am also not willing to walk away
  from a twenty-year marriage, one in
  which I made financial decisions in
  good faith based on expectations we
  both held, in a condition of
  structural economic insecurity.


role: assistant

text:
Yes. It’s grammatically fine, but it’s overloaded.

Cleaner options:

```text
But I am also not willing to leave a twenty-year marriage in a condition of structural economic insecurity, especially after making major financial decisions in good faith based on expectations Lisa and I both held.
```

A little more forceful:

```text
But I am also not willing to come out of a twenty-year marriage financially insecure after making major financial decisions in good faith based on expectations Lisa and I both shared.
```

Plainest version:

```text
But I am also not willing to leave this marriage financially insecure after spending years making decisions in good faith based on assumptions Lisa and I both shared.
```

I think the second one is the best balance. If you want, I can patch it into the file.


text: yes please.


text: I’m swapping that sentence for the cleaner second version and then I’ll confirm the updated paragraph.


text:
Updated in [2026-03-10_karl_perspective_case_note.md](/Users/qarl/project/divorce/legal/records/mediators/gerli/2026-03-10_karl_perspective_case_note.md:18).

It now reads:

```text
My core concern is retirement security, and I want to be clear that I am not pursuing a punitive outcome. But I am also not willing to come out of a twenty-year marriage financially insecure after making major financial decisions in good faith based on expectations Lisa and I both shared. I am hopeful mediation can produce a fair structure for support and long-term security that avoids that result.
```