At sixty-eight years old, Joanne Kittle had spent forty-five years allowing her husband, Alden, to control nearly every financial decision in their marriage. Although she had worked for thirty-one years delivering mail and inherited a farmhouse with forty acres from her father, she still felt obligated to ask permission before spending her own money. Everything began to change when she opened a separate bank account, redirected her pension payments, and leased part of her unused pasture to Miriam Yoder, a neighbor who needed grazing land for her goats. When Alden returned home and discovered the animals on the property, he became furious. But Joanne calmly showed him the deed proving that the land had always been in her na…Continue Reading
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