Most people feel a sense of completion once they have written a will. The documents are in place. The structure is agreed. The assets will be distributed correctly. Legally, everything has been taken care of. Often, that is where the thinking stops. But something important has not yet been addressed. A will answers one question. Who gets what. It rarely answers the deeper ones. What is this wealth actually for. What is it intended to enable. What responsibilities, if any, come with it. The...

Imagine going to a good restaurant. The food matters, of course. But often what people remember is something harder to put a price on. A story about fees, value and what people are really paying for.

Geoffrey and Anne had been married for thirty-three years. They could both remember the evening they agreed they ought to get everything sorted properly. The wine. The late sun. The feeling that they were finally having the conversation. What neither of them could quite remember was whether the conversation had actually happened. And over time, the agreement itself had quietly started to feel like understanding.