Financial Unity Honors God
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
If you're not on the same page financially, please know, you aren't the only couple facing that tension. Greg Smalley shares how many couples actually have a serious disagreement regarding finances. Plus, Jim Daly talks to Jeff and Shaunti Feldhahn about how you can get on the same page with money.
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| 0:30.8 | One of the most common calls we get from couples is they're trying to figure out financial conflict. |
| 0:41.3 | How about you? |
| 0:42.2 | I'm John Fuller. |
| 0:43.2 | Welcome to the show with Greg and Aaron Smalley. |
| 0:45.6 | Greg, couples statistically, I think most of them would say, were not quite on the same page financially. |
| 0:52.6 | What's your experience? |
| 0:53.5 | Oh, it's a huge conflict |
| 0:55.2 | within marriage. The research shows that between one-third and one-half of all couples are going to |
| 1:03.5 | experience significant arguments and disagreements and challenges within their finances. And it's an often cited reason for divorce, and it makes sense. |
| 1:15.6 | I mean, when you think about just money, the safety, the security, just the deep levels of what's |
| 1:23.2 | going on dynamically, of course, we're going to argue and fuss and have to work through conflict |
| 1:30.7 | around finances. |
| 1:32.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.7 | It's just so loaded, though, that what Aaron and I love doing is helping couples understand |
| 1:39.3 | kind of a model of how do you really talk through something that just is a mind field around emotions and |
| 1:46.9 | insecurities and just dynamics. And there is a way to do that. And so that's one of our favorite |
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