When a partner keeps a financial secret

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🗓️ 29 April 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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How do you cope when your partner keeps a secret that impacts your personal finances? Meredith Goldstein of the Love Letters podcast from The Boston Globe talks with a couple who worked through financial troubles in their marriage that threatened their hard-earned sense of security.

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0:00.0	This is Dear Life Kit. I'm reporter Andy Tagle and I have with me here Meredith Goldstein,
0:04.0	host of the Love Letters podcast from the Boston Globe. Hey Meredith. Hey there. We are such big
0:09.1	fans of your advice column here at Life Kit. It's great to see you again. It's been years.
0:12.9	Yes, it's so wonderful to be advised by you through a few really wild years. So thank you for
0:19.6	giving me so much to listen to. Yes, absolutely. In every season of the Love Letters podcast, you
0:24.4	explore one big theme in love and relationships. And this season it's all about money, money,
0:30.3	money. Tell me why. Well, part of it is that I'm very interested in just how much money people make,
0:36.5	how much money people have. I'm just like, I don't know. It's just a curiosity when someone
0:41.6	tells me about their life where I go into their house and I'm like, how do they figure this out?
0:46.6	How do they do this? It's like the thing that we kind of don't talk about. And I just realized
0:51.3	money was the thing that was sort of in the background of every story we've ever told. And I
0:55.9	just wanted to focus on it and bring it to the forefront no matter how awkward. And that brings us
1:00.4	to the episode we're sharing today without giving too much away. Could you speak a little on the
1:04.2	story that you're sharing? Well, this is a couple who, you know, in every way that is important,
1:10.5	they are in line, they are in love, they have a beautiful story, they like the same stuff,
1:15.3	which does involve nerds. They they met larping. That's live action role play for the non-geek
1:20.8	listening. And yet there is a secret in their marriage that they find out. And the secret involves
1:27.4	finances. And I think it's very relatable. This episode speaks to so many good, hard questions about
1:33.8	our financial lives. Thank you so much for sharing your Meredith. Thank you for letting me share.
1:39.1	One night in January of 2020, Alex, a young professional who lives in Massachusetts,
1:45.6	musters up the courage to confront a marital problem, a marital mystery, you might say.
1:52.6	Alex turns to Tim, the husband in this story, and asks him, what the hell is going on?
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