Healthy money habits for couples

Life Kit

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Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Should you merge your finances with a significant other? Keep them separate? Or something in between? Financial therapist Lindsay Bryan Podvin breaks down different ways to handle your finances with a partner and how to keep communication open and honest no matter what financial plan you pick.

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0:28.4	Hey there, Andy Taggle here in for Mary L. Segara.
0:35.0	Love and money don't mix.
0:37.0	It's a common sentiment.
0:39.0	In the dating phase, it might feel tacky to ask someone about their financial situation.
0:44.0	When you're in a relationship, money matters might feel taboo,
0:48.0	a subject to be tiptoed around.
0:50.0	Not an us thing.
0:52.0	So this idea that money is somehow unsexy or not intimate not
0:55.0	I actually think it's kind of the opposite.
0:57.0	when we're talking about money,
0:59.0	we're deepening our connection, we're deepening our intimacy
1:01.0	because we're talking about really vulnerable things and we're also dreaming ahead together and creating a plan
1:07.3	So that's also really sexy and important
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