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Money as a couple, weddings, prenups, divorce, and money with friends and relatives. Keep money from coming between you and the people you love.
The most financially stable couples run a hybrid system: a joint account for shared expenses like rent, utilities, and groceries, plus individual accounts for personal spending. Set it up so the joint account handles household obligations transparently while your individual accounts let you spend without justifying every purchase. The structure prevents most money arguments before they start.
Hiding debt, secret accounts, or concealed spending from your partner erodes trust in ways that outlast the financial damage. Practice full transparency: shared access to accounts, honest conversations about debt, and no hidden purchases. If you’re concealing something now, the discomfort of disclosure is always smaller than the cost of discovery.
Money is a touchy subject, and our attitudes about it and our relationships with it harken back to things we learned as children. As such, far too many soon-to-be-married couples avoid specifically discussing it. Maybe they’re embarrassed by their lack…
Getting engaged and married is an exciting time in anyone’s life. It can also be a time of intense stress as you try to plan a wedding and adapt to living with your significant other. Adding money to the equation only makes…
You drive a beat up ’95 Honda Civic and your spouse drives a shiny new BMW. You go to the mall and buy what you intended to buy, but your spouse comes home with a few of the latest gadgets…
We’ve all heard that regular date nights are important to keep a marriage healthy and strong. Yet these days, everyone is busy, tired, and overspent. Add kids to the mix, and it only gets harder to prioritize each other in…
According to The Knot, the average cost of an American wedding was about $28,000 in 2019. Wedding photography and videography account for $2,400 and $1,800, respectively, or about 15% of the total. Professional-grade wedding memories are expensive. If you’re fretting…
My wife and I did as much as we could to save money on our wedding. But we did have one considerable wedding-related expense I hadn’t accounted for: the honeymoon. It’s true some newlyweds shy away from the traditional honeymoon….
In February 2017, the New York Post ran a story about a $325,000 wedding that was canceled after a brawl broke out at the rehearsal dinner. After a dispute over a toast led to punches, the groom’s father threatened to…
It’s tough to keep the fire in your relationship when you’re bogged down in your daily routine. A romantic weekend getaway is just the ticket to rekindle that flame — but the cost! According to Lending Tree’s ValuePenguin, the average cost…
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