Ep 467: The 5 Money Conversations Every Couple Must Have (Without a Blowup)

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Money and relationships — it’s complicated. But what if those tough conversations with your partner could actually bring you closer? In this episode, Jean Chatzky sits down with personal finance expert and bestselling author Ramit Sethi to talk about how couples can stop fighting about money and start building their rich life together. Resources & Links Mentioned: 📚 Buy Ramit's Book: Money For Couples 🎙️ Listen to Ramit’s podcast: Money for Couples 📑 Download Ramit’s Conscious Spending Plan Looking for more financial confidence? 🚀 FinanceFixx – Our 4 or 8-week coaching program to get your finances on track! Our next 4-week session starts April 2nd, use code WHM for a $100 discount. 📈 InvestingFixx – A club for women ready to grow their wealth. Your first month is completely free. Have a question for us? Write to us (or send us a voice note!) at [email protected]. While you’re at it, join the HerMoney community! For the latest episode drops and financial news-you-can-use, subscribe to our newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.9	We claim that our rich life is spending time with our family, but we're spending 15% of take-home pay on delivery fees for pizza.
0:52.9	And you start to realize what we say is our rich life is not being reflected in our numbers.
0:58.7	Now, it doesn't make you a bad person.
1:01.3	Everybody, including me, my numbers are misaligned with my rich life.
1:05.9	That's life.
1:07.2	We just need to constantly be going through the process of trying to real life.
1:12.6	Hey, everyone, thanks for joining us today on Her Money.
1:16.0	I'm Gene Chatsky.
1:17.1	Very glad to have you along with us today.
1:19.7	The topic of couples and money.
1:22.4	It's one we keep coming back to on this show because money is one of the issues, if not the top issue, that causes couples to fight, even causes couples to divorce.
1:36.3	But we know so much of that hard day could be avoided if we could just get ourselves to talk it out, if we could communicate more, if we made more of an effort to have those difficult conversations before our relationships started to struggle.
1:54.0	Don't get me wrong. Not saying that these conversations are easy. They can be fraught. Money is emotional. It is so personal.
2:03.1	That is why it often feels easier to just kick the can down the road one more time. But my guest
2:10.4	today, Ramit Seychi, says these conversations can actually feel good, that they can be something that brings you and your
2:20.6	partner closer together and that you may even start looking forward to them
2:26.4	because ultimately when you're talking about money you're talking about life
2:30.1	you're talking about the life that you are building together. That is a beautiful thing.
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