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Develop intimacy and trust with your partner and in your finances
Can't Keep Up with the Joneses? It Might be Time to Rethink Your Family's Financial System Jul 14, 2022

How do you feel about your family’s financial life? Family relationships around money can be messy. If your financial life doesn’t look like the Jones’, you’re not alone...

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Can Brain Science Helps Us Achieve Financial Intimacy? brains emotions financial communication financial decision-making financial empathy financial intimacy Jul 07, 2022

What does the brain have to do with financial intimacy? Much more than you might imagine. 

 

It is a reciprocal relationship. Let me introduce you to a wonderful area of science called...

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Is Your Attachment Style impacting Your Financial Intimacy? Jun 30, 2022

Our romantic relationships involve navigating money together. In close relationships, we can develop financial intimacy to do this. This involves learning to talk about the functional side of money...

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Financial Empathy: The Key to Creating Financial Intimacy in Your Relationship financial communication financial empathy financial intimacy Jun 23, 2022

For couples, financial intimacy isn’t as simple as adding your incomes together and dividing by two. To create financial intimacy, you have to be able to see things from your partner’s...

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Has Success Become A Survival Mechanism For You? financial well-being trauma Jun 08, 2022

Success at all costs can mean different things to different people, but there’s a fear underneath it that drives it, often unconsciously. 

I have had an increased understanding of this...

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How To Use Self-Introspection To Increase Financial Intimacy financial empathy financial intimacy Jun 01, 2022

Understanding all of the roles your brain plays in helping to develop and maintain financial intimacy is essential.

That’s because the more ways you have of understanding something, the...

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Why Your Brain Is So Important To Fairness Perception And Financial Intimacy communication financial empathy May 25, 2022

Couples who share a strong sense of fairness are more likely to have successful and long-lasting relationships. One of the main reasons for this is that couples who perceive their relationship as...

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How Neuroplasticity And Mirror Neurons Increase Financial Intimacy communication financial empathy May 20, 2022

A mirror neuron is a brain cell that helps us see what’s going on in the external world and then recreate it. 

Mirror neurons have a big contribution to fostering financial intimacy in...

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