Child-related expenses are a challenging topic for many families.
What can you do when you and your significant other disagree?
Today, I'll share 3 steps to settle these disagreements and move forward in a productive and loving way. This includes:
Cultivating Understanding
Plotting Scenarios, and
Compare, Compromise, and Choose
What do you do when you've made a mistake about money?
Maybe you overspent, or maybe you kept an account secret from your partner.
In this article, I'll teach how to clean up that mess and figure out how to handle it better in the future.
Where have you messed up in a money-related situation? With this video in mind, what can you do about it? Share in the comments!
What To Do When You Make More Money Than Your Husband: A guide for breadwinning women who are wondering how the income imbalance will affect their relationship.
“Financial wellbeing is about a sense of peace and comfort with your current place within life and society.”
What would financial wellbeing look like to you?
What would you be doing and having, how would you be feeling?
“The seeds of resentment can grow and grow and grow and really possibly destroy the fabric of certain families if you don't talk about it.”
Boy, this sounds like it can extend even beyond money issues, eh? And it does.
For starters, aging parents may have very particular desires around how -- and *who* -- handles their investments, assets, healthcare decision making, and more. If these don’t get discussed, it can cause rifts for the parents, between the parents and kids, and even amongst the siblings.
“You cannot control somebody else, so you can’t fix that. You can’t change how somebody is, but you can change yourself. You can work on yourself, you can work on how you approach things.”
This a powerful theme that seems to come up again and again on The Couples Financial Coach Podcast, and Meghan Dwyer said it well this week.
I want to focus on that last phrase: “you can work on how you approach things.”
Where in your life can you get protective of your money or jealous of others’ money?
I’ve seen this crop up for me when I hear people talking about their sky-high home values, as I live in a big metro area...and before that lived in the Bay Area and NYC!
This kind of (divisive?) thinking can get us all off topic, wasting energy that can be put to other good use.
Meghan Dwyer brings a refreshing perspective: collaboration and mutual empowerment! And she doesn’t just talk the talk...you’ll want to catch her on this week’s episode of The Couples Financial Coach Podcast!
Money is a top stressor in relationships. It is also a top cause of divorce in the US, where divorce rates are ~46%.
It’s common to face some challenges around money. If this is you and your relationship, just know…
You’re not alone.
It’s essential to create a shared vision and a couple budget that will make it happen. But it’s not always easy to get on the same page.
What’s something in life you and your significant other would like to delegate?
Moving and moving furniture is one for me and my fiancee! Although as long as I don’t hurt my back, there is a feeling of accomplishment from getting something up the stairs and into place…
How about you?
