How Couples Can Make it Work

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🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We're joined by Jennifer Petriglieri, author of Couples That Work, to discuss her research on how dual-career couples can successfully navigate the tough transitions in life and ultimately thrive together.

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0:34.7	This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Alison Southwick.
0:41.8	I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp,
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0:45.9	Hi, everybody.
0:50.7	In today's episode, we're joined by Jennifer Petrilieri, the author of Couples That Work.
0:54.8	She's going to share her research and advice to help dual-earning households navigate the tough transitions that can upend a relationship. All that and more on this week's
0:59.3	episode of Motleyful Answers. So, bro, what's up? Oh, I got a few things. Do you have three
1:06.5	things? As a matter of fact, I do. Knew it. Yeah, there you go. Number one, the swelling and inflammation of health care expenses.
1:14.6	So the Kaiser Family Foundation released the latest results from its annual employer survey and found
1:18.6	that on average, the cost of employer provided health insurance for a family is now $20,576. So that's up 5% from last year. 71% is covered by the employer. The rest is
1:33.0	covered by the employee. While the overall cost has increased 5%. Actually, the employee's share
1:38.7	increased 8%. And we've seen this recently over the last few years, where employers are shifting
1:43.3	more of the costs onto the employee.
1:46.2	So once again, we see another year of the cost of health care going up much higher than overall inflation, which these days is less than 2%.
1:54.5	In fact, the Wall Street Journal had a little stat there that said that in 1999, the cost to provide health insurance for a family
2:03.8	was $5,791 in 1999.
2:07.5	So I put that into an inflation calculator on the internet.
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