175: Marriage and Money: How to Handle Finances in Marriage

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

If only getting married made your finances as cinchy as economists make it sound. Sharing the rent or mortgage, grocery bills and utilities saves so much money, there should be less financial strain on you both, not more. Study after study shows that married couples are at the top of the financial heap for net worth and earning. But somehow money is also one of the top subjects couples fight about. It sure was for my husband and me in the bad old days. Fighting about money was not conducive to intimacy or to our prosperity either. Thankfully, I finally learned what I'm about to share with you, and we haven't had a fight about money in years. Not only do we have more peace around finances and more intimacy, we also have more prosperity. On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're talking about how to handle the finances in marriage.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your marriage without your man's conscious effort so that you feel desired and taken care of and special even if your marriage feels completely hopeless.
0:22.9	I'm Laura Doyle, and today I'm talking about marriage
0:25.8	and money, how to handle finances in marriage.
0:30.0	My guest, Diana, was pretty sure
0:32.0	that her marriage was hopeless because her husband had moved out,
0:35.7	but she decided to go all in with the intimacy skills. She shared her story during the Adored Wife Challenge
0:41.6	and she generously agreed to let me play it for you here on the podcast.
0:48.0	Wait till you hear what she did to fix her marriage.
0:51.0	She shared those details so you can do it too. That's coming up, but first, let's talk about
0:57.2	marriage and money, how to handle finances in marriage. If only getting married, major finances as since as the economists make it seem like it's going to be like sharing your rent or mortgage and the grocery bills and utilities, it saves so much money.
1:14.0	There should be less financial strain on you both, not more.
1:18.0	And study after study shows that married couples are at the top of the financial heap for net worth and earnings, but somehow
1:28.1	money is also one of the top subjects that couples fight about. It sure was for us in the bad old days. But fighting about
1:36.2	money is not conducive to intimacy and it wasn't helpful for our prosperity either.
1:42.5	Thankfully I finally learned what I'm about to share with you
1:47.1	and we haven't had a fight about money at the Doyle House in decades.
1:52.1	And not only do we have more peace around finances, we also have more
1:58.1	intimacy about finances and we also have more prosperity. Now these steps might not work for you, only you know what's best for you and your family's finances as the expert on your own life, but this is how we got to where we are now.
2:16.7	Step number one, I focused on what we had, not what we didn't have.
2:22.2	And you might be thinking that it must be pretty easy for John and I to be all lovey-dovey when it comes to money now because we're rich. And I agree that we are rich. Now that might sound pretty jarring to hear me say that I'm
2:38.2	rich like I'm bragging and okay maybe I am a little bit, but rich is a subjective term. I mean, some people are
2:47.2	richer than us and some not as rich, but I like to say I'm rich every chance I get because what I focus on increases.
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