Couples and Money: Understanding Your Relationship With Money – Part I

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        John Kenneth Galbraith, an influential Canadian-American economist, once observed that “most things in life – automobiles, mistresses, cancer – are important only to those who have them. Money, in contrast, is equally important to those who have it and those who don’t.” In our prior columns, we have examined some of [...]

Couples and Money: Understanding Your Relationship With Money – Part II

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    In Part One of this series, we discussed the different aspects of a money personality and asked you to take a quiz. Let’s take a look at your answers. The first question asked you to determine which of the three dimensions was most important to you. If you circled (a), you’re into acquisition. [...]

Couples and Money: Understanding Your Relationship with Money – Part III

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      In Part Two of this series, we introduced the concept of money scripts. If you fight with your spouse about money, it may be that the two of you are reading from different scripts based on different values you learned as children. The fight is really over the psychological issues and the [...]