#662 We Happier When We Were Skint

The Niall Boylan Podcast (They Told Me To Shut Up) · Feb 23, 2026 · 58m

In today’s episode, Niall talks about a powerful and thought-provoking email the show received from a listener.

She and her husband were married for twenty years. By her account, it was a deeply happy marriage. They lived month to month, counted every bill, and didn’t have much left over — but they were content. Life was simple. Life was solid.

Then, three years ago, everything changed.

Her husband inherited more than €2 million from his father. Financial pressure disappeared overnight. The mortgage was cleared. The stress was gone. But slowly, so was something else. They began to drift. The…