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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Negotiating Money with Your Spouse

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Money is a common thing married couples fight over. John talks with the Smalley's about financial conflicts they've experienced, and Jim Daly speaks with Bill and Pam Farrel about three different approaches people have with money.

 

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0:00.0

Money is one of those things that many married couples fight about, at least at some point

0:11.2

in time.

0:12.2

And for Dean and me, we got that one out of the way real quickly.

0:14.6

I think it was day four of our honeymoon.

0:17.1

She wanted to buy a momento of our time together in the Ozarks of all places, and we're used

0:23.1

to live.

0:24.1

It was beautiful.

0:25.1

We had a great time.

0:26.1

I know.

0:27.1

It was gorgeous.

0:28.2

And four days in, she wanted to buy something, and I said, I know, why would we want that?

0:34.0

And she cried, and I tried to figure it out, and I don't think we've fought about much

0:37.9

money since.

0:38.9

I just, to where is the momento now, it's still in the gift shop in the Ozarks.

0:44.1

I'm John Fuller, joined by my critical colleagues, Aaron and Greg Smolley, they've never had

0:49.0

a fight about money.

0:50.0

Never.

0:51.0

Right?

0:52.0

Oh, man.

0:53.5

When we first were married, yeah, like you, remember on our honeymoon, we had kind of agreed

1:00.2

that, you know, let's, every day, we can spend like 20 bucks, however you want to spend

1:05.1

it, you know, momentos or whatever, and yet Aaron really wanted to talk it through.

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