She’s Frugal but He’s a Big Spender. How Do They Make Their Relationship Work?

WSJ Your Money Briefing

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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You can pick your partner but you can’t choose their spending habits. It’s a common dilemma : one person regularly shops second hand and the other gravitates towards the ‘market price’ section of the menu. Host Oyin Adedoyin talks with WSJ Personal Space columnist Katie Roiphe about how she and her husband are making it work. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think of a breakfast muffin with sausage and egg. Yep, that's the one. You can see it, can't you?
0:07.3	Deep in your mind. Sausage, egg, cheese, muffin. I don't even need to say its name, do I?
0:15.9	Breakfast, done properly. Served until 11 a.m.
0:22.9	Here's your money briefing for Friday, June 13th.
0:26.7	I'm Oyen and Adoyan for the Wall Street Journal.
0:33.7	Relationships are all about give and take.
0:36.6	But what do you do when your partner is a big spender,
0:39.0	and you only shop when things are on sale?
0:42.0	It's never fun to be like the person who's policing,
0:45.0	like how much money everybody's spending.
0:46.7	That kind of voice of the sort of sensible person,
0:50.1	even if you're kind of in the right,
0:51.7	it's just not very appealing to be that person.
0:56.6	We'll talk with Wall Street Journal personal space columnist Katie Royfey
1:00.4	about how she and her husband navigate being polar opposites when it comes to spending.
1:06.4	That's after the break.
1:20.6	Barkley's ready-made investments.
1:22.1	The clue's in the name.
1:24.4	Not Barclays, where do I begin investments?
1:26.5	You can start from 50 pounds.
1:28.5	That's why they're not difficult to get started investments either. And you can choose your risk level. So they're hardly in at the
1:32.9	deep end investments. So if you've got savings and you want to help grow your money over five years
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