Category: Financial Conversation
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Reasons You and Your Spouse Don’t Agree On Money: Part 3 – Creating Agreement in Real Life
This blog post is Part 3 of a 3 part series. You can find Part 1: Values and Part 2: Standards and Real Life here. One of the hardest parts of growing together as a team is creating habits that support your values and standards. Values drive your behaviors and lifestyle, and standards are how…
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Reasons You and Your Spouse Don’t Agree On Money: Part 2 – Standards and Real Life
This blog post is Part 2 of a 3 part series. You can find Part 1: Values and Part 3: Creating Agreement in Real Life here. Your ideals make up your dreams. Your standards make up your real life. Real life beats your dreams every day. When my husband and I were engaged, one…
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Reasons You and Your Spouse Don’t Agree On Money: Part 1 – Values
This blog post is Part 1 of a 3 part series. You can find Part 2: Standards and Real Life and Part 3: Creating Agreement in Real Life here. Did you know that disagreements over money are one of the main reasons for divorce in the United States? It doesn’t surprise me. How we manage…
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The Difference Between a Financial System and a Financial Tool
How many times have you heard “You need a budget?” My husband and I spent hours tracking, and then arguing, over our different ways of tracking money. We had our versions of budgets, and every time we sat down to review the numbers (which were essentially identical), we ended up fighting. It was exhausting and…
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How Living our Values Caused Our Spending to Go Up
My husband and I have never had a problem with saving and debt. We still had money problems. Many people think that if you have zero consumer debt, live within your means, save, and give generously, you will never have arguments about money. Allow me to disabuse you of that idea. Money problems are almost…
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How My Husband and I Prioritize Charitable Giving
Giving has always been important to our family. Even before we were married, we discussed how we wanted to be generous. Because we discussed giving early on in our relationship, it has been much easier to figure out how to implement that value in our day-to-day life. Even so, we have had to figure out…