A Couple's Therapist On How Money Poisons Relationships
The Financial Diet
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Chelsea sits down with couple's therapist Vanessa Marin and her husband, Xander, to talk about all things sex therapy, money in relationships, and being childfree. This episode is for educational purposes only. Find Vanessa and Xander here: https://vmtherapy.com/
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| 1:09.4 | one that's been requested from you for quite some time because when it comes to the nuances of money and intimacy, we have talked about a lot of different aspects of the way those two things overlap, because let's be clear. |
| 1:23.6 | It's not a myth. |
| 1:24.9 | Finance and money are two of the leading drivers of arguments, |
| 1:29.2 | discord, and even divorce in relationships. Money gets between couples like few other things |
| 1:34.9 | can. And regardless of whether you are in the early stages of dating or have been married for |
| 1:40.3 | decades, money is going to play a huge role in the way your relationship plays itself out. |
| 1:45.5 | But as much as we've talked about things like learning to communicate around the issue of money |
| 1:50.0 | budget as a couple, divorce in a more healthy way, and we even have an upcoming episode on |
| 1:55.3 | co-parenting, one thing we haven't really touched on is the way that money and the kind of troubles that money can present can affect our physical intimacy. |
| 2:05.6 | Ultimately, as many of us probably know, physical intimacy is just kind of a baseline problem in a lot of couples to begin with, and frankly, a lot of individuals to begin with. |
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