I'm just looking at investor psychology.

Psychology gets in the way.

It sounds like you still have a good relationship with your ex-wife and working together will be a great psychological plus for your children. 

There are always deeper psychological reasons and those reasons are typically not controversial (such as to be less stressed out about the necessity of paying bills, to achieve the ability to pursue other life goals, to help family, to prepare for my future retirement, etc.).

They're too salty to care about ego stuff, "just under" or "just over" $800k is all the same thing to them.Seller 2, who will walk away with ~$300k is going to care a lot more about $20k this way or that, psychologically that $20k puts them over or under $300k, and they are young so that sort of thing is more likely to matter.

I wanted to do some digging, and discovered that there are some psychological reasons behind our often knee jerk reactions to new experiences, facts & opportunities.The thing is, these biases could stand in the way of our own investing success, as we convince ourselves to make decisions that aren’t always in our best interest.

I think the recent virus was a good indicator......in spite of a national panic and worse than a recession (in some ways) the STR market flourished in most areas.......It's all about psychology...when people are repressed or depressed, they want to get away, have some fun...And even in a recession, most people can come up with a few bucks for a weekend away...

Best I can tell, we have a good supply of majors in law, anthropology, fashion, photography, theater, philosophy, psychology, history and sociology. 

What's hard is the psychology.

And psychology is fear has a 3X action and engagement focus factor from pleasure, so they just sell fear.