Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money Podcast you put your finances in order.

My name is Pete Matthew and I'm going to share with you everything you need to know and everything you need to do to secure your financial future.

I'm here to help you make sense of money.

Here we go. Great to have you with me once again. Now episode 5 of season 16 and this

season is being incredibly well received I have to say so thank you for all your kind words in the Facebook group and in iTunes reviews and all that sort of stuff. I'm really glad it's hitting a chord with you.

Hitting a chord? Do you know you hit a nerve and strike a chord anyway, whichever

I'm glad it's working out for you. Now planning a retirement is complex enough

when there's only one of you but if you're in the long-term relationship and you know if you're

planning to stay together for the long term and you're going to need to plan your retirement

together and if that's a case then there are even more variables that you need to

consider but really it's about how you approach it that's what we want to talk

about in today's show so after we've done that good reader review that's been left

and now that's what we're going to be talking about next time all the

usual stuff but as you know by now before any of that remember this podcast

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go check them out. Okay we spent the last two weeks gathering information on our existing financial position,

working out last week how best to position the pieces in readiness for retirement.

Now we need to add our partner stuff into the mix

and specifically understand how to work together

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