Working Through Different Financial Priorities
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In a marriage, one spouse tends to save money while the other prefers to spend it. When that's the case, how can you work together? John, Greg and Erin offer some ideas for how to get on the same page financially in your relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
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| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
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| 0:28.2 | today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You |
| 0:35.8 | can find more relationship insights at focusonthefamily.com slash marriage |
| 0:41.3 | podcast. While we have found here focus on the family through a variety of guests |
| 0:46.8 | in their own research that in couples one spouse tends to be a spender and the |
| 0:51.9 | other tends to be a saver. It just seems to be that way. I'm John Fuller along |
| 0:57.4 | with my focus colleagues, Dr. Greg Smolley and his wife Aaron Smolley and in |
| 1:02.5 | your relationship Aaron, I don't think I have to guess but who likes to spend and |
| 1:08.6 | likes to say John, guess tell me your best but I'll tell you Greg is more of the |
| 1:15.4 | saver but he likes to spend on big ticket items where I like to spend more on |
| 1:21.8 | little things. You nickel and dime stuff. I do and I bargain shop it and I get |
| 1:27.0 | lots of something we probably don't need at a good price but he would definitely |
| 1:31.4 | research and do the what's the best what's the best appliance and I don't care |
| 1:37.2 | how much it is let's spend more and so it's just a very different in how we |
| 1:42.0 | approach money. In honestly I would say that yeah maybe you're you might be |
| 1:48.1 | classified as the spender. It's not that I'm a saver I like to operate within the |
| 1:54.4 | rules of our budget. Like that gives me a lot of satisfaction and safety that |
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