Money Sense for Couples

By Kelli Brooks

Money Sense for couples is a financial road map for your relationship. Talking about money is an important part of any couple's long-term relationship success. It will ensure that you're creating a joint vision, and are on the same page, and that you can pursue your shared and individual goals in life. Additionally, by talking about money on a regular basis healthily and productively, you'll avoid many problems as well as ensure your financial futures together.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kelli Brooks
• Release date: Mar 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393897323

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Why Every Couple Should Talk About Money

Talk about money is an important part of any couple’s long-term success. Talking about money together will ensure that you’re creating a joint vision, are on the same page, and that you can pursue your shared and individual goals in life. Additionally, by talking about money on a regular basis healthily and productively, you’ll avoid many problems as well as ensure your financial futures together.

To Create a Joint Vision

You may have very different ideas about what constitutes success. However, if you never talk about money and your goals you won’t even know if the reason you have problems with your spouse is due to huge differences in those goals. For example, for one of you, home ownership might be an important way that you define success. The other partner may prefer to rent, due to not wanting maintenance responsibilities or some other reason.

You won’t know if you don’t talk about it. When you find out that you have different ideas, you can try to forge a middle path that can help you both. For example, instead of buying a house, you may choose to buy a condo to cut down on some of the maintenance concerns.

To Ensure You’re on The Same Page

If you want to make sure you’re both on the same page about a goal, talking about it can only help. Even if you don’t want the same things, understanding why it’s important to the other spouse can go far in helping make it something you are concerned with too.

To Pursue Shared Goals in Life

Shared life goals are an important part of marriage. Saving for the future so that you can travel, or check things off your bucket list is a wonderful way to plan your finances. It gives you both something to work for and plan for in the