Marriage and Money
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Our latest guest, Belinda Luscombe, would rather have had her eyes put out than read a book about marriage; they all seemed full of advice that was obvious, useless, or bad. Plus they were boring.
But after covering the relationship beat for Time magazine for ten years, she realized there was a surprisingly upbeat and little-known story to tell about the benefits of staying together for the long haul. Hence her recently released book, Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together.
Casting a witty, candid, and probing eye on the latest behavioral science, Luscombe has written a fresh and persuasive report on the state of our unions, how they’ve changed from those of our parents’ era, and what those changes mean for the happiness of this most intimate and important of our relationships.
In Marriageology Luscombe examines the six major fault lines that can fracture contemporary marriages, also known as the F-words: familiarity, fighting, finances, family, fooling around, and finding help.
She presents facts, debunks myths, and provides a fascinating mix of research, anecdotes, and wisdom from a wide range of approaches, from how properly dividing up chores can result in a better sex life to the benefits of fighting with your spouse to whether or not to tell your partner that you lost $70,000. (The last one is from firsthand experience.)
Marriageology offers simple, actionable, maybe even borderline fun techniques and tips to try, whether the relationship in question is about to conk out or just needs a little grease and an oil change. The best news of all is that sticking together is easier than it looks.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Jill Schlesinger on this episode of Jill on Money. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, how are you going to stay together if you're always fighting about money? |
| 0:11.0 | It's our episode called Marriage and Money. |
| 0:14.6 | When they say don't go to bed angry, I think that's garbage. Go to bed angry. |
| 0:18.6 | Feel free to go to bed angry. Have the fight in the morning. Why would you fight tired? Don't fight under other, you know, stressful situations. |
| 0:26.1 | When you have a fight, give some respect to it. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Jill On Money Podcast. We are presented by Marcus by Goldman Sachs. |
| 0:34.4 | Ah, summertime. |
| 0:36.6 | You know what that means for a certain segment of you. |
| 0:39.9 | It means a lot of weddings. Maybe your own wedding, maybe you are attending a wedding. |
| 0:45.6 | Regardless, we have a fantastic guest today. Her name is Belinda Luskum. |
| 0:51.2 | She's written a book called Marriageology, the art and science of staying together. |
| 0:57.0 | So today with Belinda, we are talking about marriage and money. |
| 1:01.4 | Don't forget to stay tuned after the interview. |
| 1:03.9 | We've got our special new feature. |
| 1:05.7 | It's called the Marcus Minute, presented by Marcus by Goldman Sachs. |
| 1:09.5 | And now our interview with Belinda. |
| 1:17.0 | You're listening to Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger. Belindeluscombe, thank you so much for allowing me to tackle you when you were coming off the |
| 1:21.9 | air or going, I think you were coming coming in I think I was coming in but by the way I was delighted to be tackled |
| 1:26.6 | Really? Absolutely this is how I get some of my best guests I hang around after a segment that I do I listen to what's going on and the woman who produced your segment |
| 1:35.1 | for CBS this morning is my dedicated producer and she told me how much she loved the book and so she'd given me the book |
| 1:42.2 | Fantastic so that's why I'm like I gotta get her on loved the book and so she'd given me the book. Fantastic. |
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