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Focus on the family.com slash family. Well, I've seen a lot of newly wed couples struggling with financial habits that really aren't very healthy.

And today we're going to be sharing why it's good to be honest with your spouse about how you manage money.

I'm Jean Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley. They lead the marriage department here and

what were your financial habits when you

got married?

I'll just say, when we got married, Dina made a lot more money than me and together we didn't

really make much. we did not have much to

spend and we were fortunately on the same page. I'm like yeah it's similar I mean we

were I was in graduate school, Aaron was working as a labor and

delivery nurse and I would say just generally speaking that I'm probably, I

tend to be more the saver, Aaron tends to be more the saver

Aaron tends to be more the spender but our biggest issue is we both like to spend

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