Life Lessons

Love Means Always Having to Say You’re Sorry

Mariko O. Gordon, CFA
4 min readNov 16, 2021
“Cool Whip” by JeepersMedia is licensed under CC BY 2.0

My first boyfriend dumped me.

Thankfully, he was a gentleman, so he didn’t disappear without offering me valuable feedback: Stop being so damn critical.

My offense: He’d prepared a lovely picnic, one involving strawberries and Cool Whip, and because I have a thing about plastic food (despite a hypocritical weakness…

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Mariko O. Gordon, CFA

Built $2.5B money mgmt biz from scratch. Coaching badass women to build & love their businesses, manage their finances, and make sure the thrill is never gone.