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When it comes to money I don't think there are many couples who agree about what's right to spend it on.

Everybody has different priorities and goals.

There isn't one right answer.

My wife and I, we've got a lot of give and take.

She hates some of the ways I spend money.

I just hold my breath and say it's okay for her to spend the money on that.

So we've kind of learned to live with each other

and have a rhythm on that, but it can be a wedge.

And I'm John Feller along with Greg Smalley.

We're gonna talk about that.

Greg, do you have, examples at all of you and Aaron struggling with this?

Yeah, this only took me 1.3 seconds to come up with an example.

Like for us, we'll get all kinds of invitations to weddings,

the graduations, and some of these, I wouldn't even know these people. And Aaron always

will want to buy them something and, it just drives me crazy like we don't know why are we buying so and so that we've hardly met but once a present and so she's so good at hospitality in wanting to provide that for people and I'm going no we have to be good friends with them before I'm willing to send him a $20 gift.

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