<prompt> Human: As the title indicates, Im about to receive a large inheritance after my only parent passed away recently. The amount will be coming from several places including, life insurance, Retirement, savings the selling of assets, with the largest first check to be coming soon. I have sought out the help of a probate attorney to help me through the probate period of my parents affairs business. I will be getting a large check soon from the life insurance. I havent even had the chance to come to terms with the passing of my parent and am still very much mourning the loss and the money feels dirty, for lack of a better word. Ive been married almost 2 decades. I am pushing 40 years old. United States. Ive been a stay at home parent for the entirety of my marriage. Still have young children at home. Have very little real life work experience. My spouse earns just over 100k annually and we live within our means fairly comfortably. Spouse has retirement and all that set up through their employer we have been working on building that. We own 2 homes, one we rent out. One we live in. In my current situation, I get paid weekly into my own bank account but always at the discretion of my spouse who earns the paycheck. We can comfortably pay our bills, buy groceries, get fuel have some leftover for fun money at the end of each week. I still have a low enough balance in my bank account, always, that I need to check my balance about half the time to be sure I have left to spend what I think I have. What do I do? What is your best advice? I plan to put it in the bank for now until Im more comfortable with the idea of spending the money I basically profited off the unexpected death of my parent. Its been devastating. I dont mean to be a total ass by sounding ungrateful at the sudden windfall of money, Im just still very much grieving the loss would rather have 5 more minutes with my parent than everything they worked so hard for, their entire adult life. Once everything is said and done I will be getting somewhere between 300k and 500k. Please help. Give me your best advice. I need it.  <response>: Dont tell anyone - and dont move too on things too quickly. Let yourself mourn. There is no need to rush. Just park it in a savings account for now. 