Healthy Love and Money Blog
Develop intimacy and trust with your partner and in your finances
Financial therapy is a specific type of therapy that focuses on money issues. It is essentially where therapy and financial advising overlap.
Financial therapists don't just focus on budgets,...
There are many potential reasons that couples fight about money. Knowing what some of the most common reasons are can help you minimize money fights with your partner.
Communication Styles
Some...
Everyone has trauma. Whether it’s large traumas or small daily traumas, these inevitably impact your financial life.
Your sense of security in the world is impacted by how your nervous...
Decide how to manage joint and personal accounts
Once you’re ready to start tackling your finances together as a couple, there are several key decisions to make first.
The first is...
If you're married or in a long-term committed relationship, chances are you've already discussed creating a joint financial plan together.
But if you haven't yet created one, now's the...
It’s important to set and agree upon financial expectations in your relationship upfront.
Having a meaningful discussion about money and your financial expectations can go a long way toward...
We all have financial expectations of others. Financial expectations are how we expect people to behave and how much we expect to spend on certain things.
It can be so easy to have missed...
Money is one of the most difficult topics to talk about in a relationship. Money can be an emotional topic, and it's often something that many couples avoid because they're afraid of hurting their...
