Hello, everyone, and welcome back to an all new episode of the Financial Confessions.

It is I, your host, Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO of the Financial Diet and person who loves talking about money.

And something that has come up over and over again on this show is the intersection between money and relationships.

Now, we've spoken to other experts in the past on different aspects of this phenomenon. We've had therapists. We've had actually

other attorneys. But most of the time when we cover these issues, we receive some feedback from

you guys that you'd love a lot more of a deep dive into the nitty gritty of things especially like pre-ups and managing assets between partners and sort

of setting yourself up for a good and healthy relationship and in the event that it happens,

a good and healthy divorce.

Now, it's important to kind of talk about all of this holistically, because if you are planning to have a relationship that is mature and respectful and open,

it pretty much by nature has to include the possibility that the relationship may end someday.

But a lot of people just really don't like to think in those terms.

And in general, something that we've seen over and over at TFD

in all of the various research that we've done

and the content that we've created in the audience we've spoken to,

is that for a lot of people, not talking about money

can sort of start off as a bad habit.

Maybe you're nervous, you're a little avoidant,

you have baggage around money, which everyone does.

You don't want to scare the other person off or intimidate them.

And then it just sort of becomes a dynamic in the relationship.

And therefore, when it comes time to do things like get married, the idea of bringing up

something like a pre-nup can feel totally out of the, and again, scary, overwhelming, potentially alienating,

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