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katherine starts this hour off in detroit hey katherine how are you

hi dave and ken thank you so much for taking my call sure um i am seeking advice today on my

relationship okay um i've been dating my boyfriend for almost a year, and things have been going really well,

but I have concerns that as, you know, things continue to progress, hopefully down the path

towards marriage, that are discrepancy and finances, specifically income, debt, retirement savings will be a problem,

and that ultimately I might kind of find myself in a sugar mama type situation, which I'd really...

You don't be that girl.

We already have a problem. Yeah, I love it. Good for you. So, uh, how old are you? I'm 38 and how old is he 35?

Okay, cool. And what do you make? I make 200 and he makes 45. Okay. All right. And what does he do?

Um, he works in construction. And what does he do? He works in construction.

And what do you do?

I work in the automotive industry.

Okay.

There is nothing wrong with anything you've told me so far that makes us incompatible as long as you're

both in agreement.

So what we've found is there's four things that good research is revealing that if you

agreed on four things prior to marriage, you have a very high statistical probability of

staying married.

Number one is money, how we handle it, how we view it. Okay, number two, because

money fights and money problems are number one cause a divorce. So you got to deal with it. So you're

smart to call a money show and talk about this. Number two, kids, are we going to have them how many

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