Couples & Cash: How to Have "The Talk"

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🗓️ 10 February 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Don't let money issues become a sore spot in your relationship. We share our top tips to make managing money with your Shmoopy painless, productive -- and even fun!

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0:00.0	It's that time again.
0:04.6	Motley Fool Answers is here.
0:06.9	I'm Allison Southwick, joined by Robert Brokamp and Deanna Yokem.
0:10.6	Love is in the air with Valentine's Day around the corner.
0:13.6	So today we're going to talk about love and money.
0:16.7	Maybe you've never had a good heart to heart with your schmooopy about money.
0:19.8	That's okay.
0:20.7	You're not alone.
0:22.4	Smoopy.
0:23.3	Oh, that's right.
0:24.8	Shmoopy.
0:26.2	By the end of today, you'll be able to have a productive, healthy, and loving conversation with your honey about money.
0:36.2	Also, I'd like to recommend that you send this show to anyone you know who's about to get married
0:40.7	because they'll get more out of it than that gravy boat that's on their registry.
0:44.6	Right?
0:45.0	Oh, yeah, totally.
0:45.5	I didn't even put a gravy boat on our registry.
0:47.1	I've never used our gravy boat.
0:49.1	So if you spend all of five minutes looking into research about money and marriage. It is not pretty,
0:54.5	but there is a lot of it. So, this is true. There's a lot of research out there about money and
1:00.2	marriage. What is your guys' favorite stat? Who wants to go first? Your favorite love and money
1:04.8	stats? I'll start. Okay. So I just saw this one recently. Approximately one third of Americans
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