It is a funny thing, that money does make the world ‘go around’ and that love ‘makes a marriage’ but the one thing that makes the world go around often interferes with the love in a marriage. In order to put more calmness and love into your life for a long time, learning to tame the beast called money and how money is handled by the two of you is going to make the relationship that much easier the deal with for the future.
First let’s look at how money can be handled between two people.
There are those couples who have one person who is charge of all the bills and such while the other lives by the budget.
There are situations where both spend money from the same check book, not knowing what the other has been spending, and often find they run out of money before payday.
Some couples will ask each other before money is being spent. Some couples spend money without telling their spouse, leaving little money for emergencies.
There are couples that keep separate monies for the house and then live off and spend what other monies they want how they want.
Additionally other couples will pool together their money for the most important bills, while keeping their other monies separate and they are responsible for paying certain bills.
Budgets
Budgets are a major sticking point in all types of relationships. If you have six different couples sitting there in front of you, what you will realize fast is that all these couples handle their money in different ways.
Some people, save, save, save. If you are a saver you put xxx dollars in the savings before you pay bills or take money from the budget for other types of things. This is one of the best types of budgets that will prepare you for emergencies in life.
Some people are spenders, spenders, spenders. These are the couples that continually spend money without preparing or savings for any type of emergency, they live from paycheck to paycheck.
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