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Focus on Marriage Podcast

Talk About Your Financial Fears

Focus on Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

What is your biggest fear regarding money? Taylor and Megan Kovar share with Jim Daly about why it's good and actually healthy for couples to ask each other that question. Plus, John and Erin share why you don't have to keep your financial worries a secret from your mate.

 

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0:00.0

When was the last time you and your spouse talked about your deepest fears about finances?

0:10.7

I think for us it goes back to a house that we owned. We couldn't sell it. The market had fallen

0:16.7

through. We were stuck with this house for eight years. We lost money every year. And I said,

0:22.5

I think we should just cut it loose. And we really had to struggle because she's a long-term

0:27.0

thinker. And Dina was saying, well, maybe if we just hold it. And I said, I'm so sick of losing

0:31.5

money. I just want to be done with it. And we worked through it and we did dump the house and I was glad for it and I haven't regretted it.

0:39.1

But that was a really hard time for us.

0:41.0

We had young kids.

0:42.1

We had this house, this mortgage that we really didn't want.

0:45.4

And we were living in a rental house in the meantime.

0:48.1

It was hard.

0:48.8

And then two months later, market shot up.

0:52.2

It was worth $2 million.

0:54.6

Yeah, Not quite.

0:55.4

I've gone back through Zillow and I've looked and it's not quite worth $2 million.

0:59.9

So I'm John Fuller in the studio, obviously, with Greg and Aaron Smalley.

1:03.6

They lead the marriage department here.

1:05.5

And we're going to hear now a conversation from Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

1:09.5

Jim spoke with Taylor and Megan Kovar and they shared some

1:12.4

insights about discussing your money fears. You talk about a money dump. Boy, it sounds like fun.

1:19.3

Where can we go? Doesn't that sound great? I don't think that's what you're talking about.

1:23.7

It does sound like fun, but what's your version of the money dump? Yeah, so the money dump is where we want couples to get together at least once a year, right?

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