It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Welcome back, everybody.

I'm Kusha Navidar, filling in for Brian today.

So tomorrow is Valentine's Day.

I hope you'll be surrounded by people you love.

I'll be moving apartments with my wife. We are very romantic. But maybe you're buying a gift for

your sweetie or planning a date or just staying at home and cooking with your partner. But here's the

thing. You know what all of those activities have in common?

They all require money. No matter how hard we try, every relationship at some point needs to

confront the topic of finances. And sometimes it is a harder conversation to have than asking the

person out in the first place. How do you split rent when you're making different incomes? How do you navigate different spending habits or debt? And that awkwardness, that tension about how

money shows up in your relationship can be true, whether you're on date one or date 1,000.

So let's talk about it. How do you work out money with your partner? We're lucky to be joined in the studio by Charlotte Coles, a financial advice columnist for New

York Magazine's The Cut, where she's written about finance, including one article titled

Four Fights Couples Have About Money and How to Get Out of them.

Charlotte, hi, welcome back to WNYC.

Thanks so much for having me.

And listeners, we want to hear from you. How do you work

out money with your partner? What challenges have you faced and what helped? Give us a call or

send us a text at 212-433 WNYC. That's 212-433-9692. Are there best money practices you can't live without or things you would never do again?

Give us a call and share your story of how you navigate finances as a couple and how you kind of keep the romance alive.

Give us a call or send us a text.

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