How to Manage Money in Marriage
MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans
XO Marriage
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on marriage today with Jimmy and Karen |
| 0:03.2 | When we got married and we would talk about money |
| 0:05.9 | Karen called me a spin thrift and I called her a tight walk. |
| 0:08.9 | That's why we couldn't talk about money because we judged each other so much and she when she called me a spendthrift my blood pressure would go out and I just oh I hated her to say that and I said Karen you're kind of one of those women, you're going to die with all your money and your mattress. |
| 0:24.0 | Nobody will like you. |
| 0:26.0 | And she said you won't have the money to get a mattress. |
| 0:29.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, good under my scull. Good. So we just, we couldn't talk about it. But listen to me. |
| 0:38.2 | It's just the way I see money. It's just the way she sees many. married man and married woman or children with their parents intact. |
| 1:04.7 | They have a better chance of financial wealth than anybody else on earth. |
| 1:08.6 | It's just proven. |
| 1:09.9 | And so wealth has a real blessing to it when it comes into marriage and we can handle it. |
| 1:16.5 | However, the number one reason people list is why they're divorcing is money problems. |
| 1:21.7 | It's a two-edged sword. It has tremendous |
| 1:24.0 | power of blessing if we know how to handle it together in marriage, but if we don't |
| 1:28.8 | it causes tremendous stress. And Karen and I, this was the radioactive issue in our marriage. |
| 1:35.0 | By radioactive, I meant somebody's going to get hurt. |
| 1:38.0 | We could not talk about money. |
| 1:40.0 | You know, money happens all the time. |
| 1:41.0 | That's the problem with it. |
| 1:42.0 | It's not one of those things that happens every now and then. |
| 1:44.7 | Money happens all the time. It's real. There's a demand on our life for us to have money and to spend money and especially for the essentials of life. We were broke, |
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