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Sean Gates is back. He's here to help you stay motivated and hold yourself accountable so that you'll

actually change your bad money habits. We're also going to get some love advice from the Federal Reserve.

All that and more on this week's episode of Molly Fool Answers.

According to a new working paper from the Federal Reserve, hey, where are you going?

Listeners, get back here. As I was saying, a new working paper from

the Federal Reserve looked into the role that credit scores have in predicting the stability

and potential longevity of a relationship. Yes, that's right. Your credit scores are like

a love score. Bro? Explain.

Okay. So, your credit score, of course, is based on your credit worthiness. The amount of debt

you have, your ability to pay back your debt, whether you've had foreclosures or bankruptcies.

And here's the findings of that paper, as summarized by Bloomberg. So, first of all, people

with higher credit scores are more likely to be in a committed relationship and stay together longer. People tend to form relationships with people

who have similar credit scores. And the strength of the match, both in terms of the score and

the details, is predictive of whether they will break up in the future. And one thing I thought

was perhaps the most interesting is that

they found that it implies just some overall trustworthiness about the person. So it often

predicted whether someone broke up over something that had nothing to do with money. It's

just whether that person was a responsible person or not.

When I first read the headline, it was like, oh, your credit score and your ability to

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