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10 Essential Elements For The Joy of Financial Intimacy Jul 17, 2023

Fostering financial intimacy is an ongoing process. 

 

Ask me how I know this. 

 

I am a dreamer, and my loving wife is more pragmatic. There are many ways we are similar and...

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How To Handle Financial Resentment In Your Intimate Relationship and Foster Financial Intimacy Jul 07, 2023

When Financial Resentment Breaks Through

Sitting in a parking lot on vacation with tears in my wife's eyes, the reality of financial resentment buildup comes pouring out. We are a couple like so...

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From Tragedy to Triumph: How to Achieve Financial Well-Being After Devasting Experiences Jun 20, 2023

He is ready to kill him, and he is lucky his stepfather didn’t come home that day. The murderous rage courses through Keeper’s veins as he prepares to confront his stepfather about...

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Why The Psychology of Ownership Will Increase Financial Intimacy Jun 14, 2023

What is the psychology of ownership?

Wow is my first reaction to the Google search for the psychology of ownership. The idea of ownership is not new to me and likely not to you. On the surface, the...

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3 Meaningful Summer Reads To Increase Financial Intimacy Jun 05, 2023

Summer reading can take on many different meanings.

 

What comes to mind when you think about summer reading? 

 

Is it reading a romance novel on the beach while the kids play in the...

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10 Financial Intimacy Keys To Ensure Money Fights Don't Ruin Your Marriage Jun 01, 2023

Do you ever wish you could wave a magic wand and all your money differences and financial resentments would disappear between you and your spouse? 

 

I certainly have. I know there are no...

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Does Financial Therapy Work? Let's Process That. May 26, 2023

It All Starts With A NY Times Article

Asking hard questions is the job of great reporters, therapists, and researchers. This is something I have found in common between the three professions....

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How Couples Can Make Confident Money Decisions By Balancing Data, Emotions and Intuition couples and money data emotions feelings financial intimacy intuition May 18, 2023

Let’s take a both and approach.

All he does is use spreadsheets to explain why we will be okay Danielle exasperately explains. She is so tired of being spreadsheeted. For Nathan, spreadsheets...

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