The Money Clinic revisited

Money Box

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4.2 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Money is one of the top three strains on relationships and it’s a common cause of rift between family and friends.

You might be cautious and risk averse and hate to see your partner frittering their money away on new clothes and nights out; while they might think you should stop being so miserly with your cash and splash out once in a while.

Earlier this year Ruth Alexander introduced ‘The Money Clinic’. In this special Money Box series we eavesdropped on the conversations of three couples and a mother and son talking honestly about their finances with a relationship counsellor. We learnt about their relationship with each other and how money impacted on their relationships, as well as hearing how they managed the emotional side of money. We learnt that individual attitudes to money are formed in early life, and how arguments about it are often about much more than just money.

In this programme we catch up with two households and hear what impact the Money Clinic had on their relationship with money.

If you have a money and relationship issue you would like to share, email moneybox@bbc.co.uk

Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producer Smita Patel Editor Emma Rippon

Transcript

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0:00.0	In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.
0:08.0	But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA
0:12.0	was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.
0:18.0	Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?
0:21.3	When lies are still being told to this day,
0:24.0	who do you believe?
0:25.1	I wouldn't even know where to start,
0:26.7	and I'm with the IRA.
0:28.5	Steakknife.
0:29.7	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:33.5	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:36.9	Music, radio, radio podcasts.
0:53.6	This summer, we opened the Money Clinic here on BBC Radio Forum, inviting some brave individuals to sit down with a relationship counsellor to bear their souls and their finances.
0:56.2	We try and compromise where we can't compromise.
0:59.1	It doesn't have consequences because I then pay it.
1:01.1	I don't think we need to worry about money.
1:02.5	I don't worry about it.
1:04.7	I felt bad that you bought that for me.
1:07.5	I'd push something away and let it go, but it comes back to bought me.
1:12.6	In this programme, we'll be catching up with some of those who took part and eavesdropping as they have another session with Dee Holmes,
1:16.5	a counsellor with the relationship charity, relate.
1:19.8	Did Paul and Julie settle the question about when to retire?
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