Hello, Winebers. My name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast number 260 for Wine.

Where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt

and save more money.

If you are sharing finances with a partner, then you should be budgeting together.

Does that freak you out?

If you're normal, it does.

Because most of the time, I don't know religion money are we ranking them what's more

of a hot topic or like a hot button issue for couples money I think it's number one or and two and probably three. The

money issue is so scary for so many people and it really comes down to communication and I am no marriage counselor. I am no therapist.

I am no psychiatrist. I am just a guy that really likes budgeting and thinks she should do it.

But I do have a few ideas around getting a partner on board.

The only downside to this is that it's a long play. It's a long play. Like if you remember like first

meeting that special person I hope you were thinking this is a long play right I'm going to marry that girl is what I thought

How will I go about it and I didn't just jump right into will you marry me that would have scared her and we're doing the budget

thing would it not have scared you to have someone just come up and say we

should start budgeting because you know what they're hearing they're hearing we should stop

spending all of our money we should not spend any money at all we should eat beans and

rice we should start cutting our own hair we should never ever eat out again. We should never enjoy our money again.

We should live under a bridge. You know, who knows. But it's it's dramatic. It's emotionally charged, it's scary and you are freaking them out.

Hey, let's imprison ourselves financially by doing this budget thing.

That's what they heard. Hey, I think you spend too much, so I'm going to build this infrastructure and then have that in place to where I can check on you at all times and point the finger at you when you do spend money so you

know how guilty you actually are.

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