Hello, everyone, and welcome back to an all new episode of the Financial Confessions.

It's me, your host, Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO of the Financial Diet.

And today we are here to talk about a topic that we've touched on in various ways over the seasons,

but haven't yet done a true deep dive on.

And that is specifically money as it pertains to couples relationships and in the case of my

guest couples therapy you guys write in all the time about the various issues that you're

experiencing in your primary partner relationship there's also of course tons of

money issues in family and friends relationships although I think just our spouse or significant

other is worth its own deep dive.

And what's interesting about the stories that we hear and the things that we experience

in our own lives and relationships is that money is often just a shorthand for a lot of other

things that we may be experiencing, differences in background, differences in values,

and all of these various aspects of a relationship that may may be experiencing, differences in background, differences in values, and all of these various aspects

of a relationship that may not be as easy to talk about

because they're not as concrete as money is.

On the other hand, many people find money

to be the most difficult thing to talk about with a partner.

And their problems and disagreements

and disappointments with money get channeled into all

kinds of other issues that are for some people less taboo. Suffice to say very few people have a

totally healthy, totally holistic, totally communicative and totally unburdened relationship

with money themselves, let alone when they come into longterm financial cohabitation with another person.

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