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Focus on Marriage Podcast

Money Personalities and Contentment

Focus on Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Whether you prefer to spend or save, it's important for you and your spouse to work together in how you manage finances. John asks Greg and Erin if they're more of the spender of saver type. You'll then hear Jim Daly speak with Taylor and Megan Kovar about why money isn't the answer to everything in life.

 

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0:00.0

In many marriages, it's pretty typical for spouses to have different financial habits and

0:10.7

understandings, and regardless of how you handle money, it's really important for you to focus on

0:16.0

working together on these things. I'm John Fuller in the studio with Greg and Aaron Smalley, who lead

0:21.9

our marriage department. And last time we heard from some guests that spoke about the five

0:27.0

money personalities. Now, Greg and Aaron, okay, she's it. Tag. Aaron, what's your money personality?

0:34.7

And what does that, what does that say to Greg when he's thinking about money?

0:39.5

I have no money personality. You know, it's interesting. I could probably fall between two categories.

0:46.7

The spender and the flyer. The spender, I definitely bargain shop, so I spend little bits at a time.

0:53.9

But a flyer is someone who prioritizes experiences.

0:58.1

I value spending money on vacations and experiences with our family.

1:04.6

And so I'm probably somewhere in there, although as I'm aging, leaning more into saving.

1:10.1

Yeah.

1:13.6

Again, this is a topic that there's no easy category that you just are this and you're always this. Life does its thing and there are

1:19.3

seasons. But Greg, if that's her, where are you at in terms of the money person? And I'll tell you,

1:24.5

I'm the saver. I mean, I'll usually save up and then spend it on something. But, but typically, I like to see the, the bank account in the black. Yes. That gives me a lot of comfort. But I tell you, even, I mean, Aaron and I have been around this kind of conversation and talking about personalities.

1:47.2

But when we were talking about this beforehand and just when she said, I'm probably more the flyer, I was like, okay, what does that mean again?

1:55.4

And then as we looked it up, it just, it's so fun to go that it totally is you.

2:00.3

It just reinforces taking assessments,

2:03.4

taking these little quizzes. It just, it can bring just a new fresh insight, even something

2:10.5

really small that just helps me go, oh yeah, that's true, that's who you are. And then I can value that,

2:16.5

but understand that as well when

2:18.9

when she's, you know, wanting to take the kids on a trip. And I'm like, no, that's too much money.

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