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Well, all month long at Awesome Marriage, we've been talking about money and marriage.

And today we're going to be diving into the topic about understanding your spouse's money mindset.

So to kick things off, Dr. Kim, I'd love to hear from you.

What do you think are the factors that affect someone's money mindset?

Like, how do people develop their thoughts about money?

I think family of origin has a huge impact on that. In fact, I was

meeting with a couple this week that's really struggling with the way they look at money and

two drastic, drastic family differences there. And it really caused a lot of conflict in their marriage

because it's not like really one was right or wrong, but they're so drastically different. They've

been, have not been able to come

to something how they're going to handle money. So definitely family of origin. I think our culture,

just in general, what people think about money, the people are around, what they say, what they

hear on TV, media, those kind of things. And then maybe sometimes just our expectations, you know,

what do we want out of life, people that do set

goals and how they're going to get there. And if they want to have so much money saved by the

time to get to a certain stage of life, or if they want to, whatever that is, and all that goes

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