Don't lose track of the money in your marriage

There have been some samples very hopeful that this year brought a more equal financial peer married. The tests have liked it that found that men were just as comfortable as taking their wives are economic mainstays of the family because they are wives with husbands they are economic mainstays of the family. At the same time, most men and women said no thought that the husband who does most of the money must have a bigger view on how the money is spent. The 's encouraging to see that only 12 percent of men said they considered him ' d mind if his wife earned more than he does so, instead, the majority was pretty damned happy to share the burden of providing their families.

Yet that same survey Elle / msnbc.com found that the money is still in the heart of many struggles and a source of anger in unions, and many have trouble even talking of money. Of course we do. Life is busy and tiring, the accounts need to be paid each month, the paperwork filled up, and there 's so little time to dig deeper into financial issues. And who wants if he 's going to spark the resentment, anger and money-are concerned about the tension?

But no matter how the questions are uncomfortable speaking of money and the one to ask, we need to do so. If you put 't know exactly how much debt you have as a couple, how much money comes in and goes every month, how many accounts you have and whose name is inside and how much is in it, makes it a point to discover. Now.

I 'women stylish, elegant view VE performs suddenly putting ' t know how much money is in investment accounts, and when it is too late to learn that money has been moved around and has been passed through his partners without their knowledge. Others have no real clue what 's in their tax returns.

We 've noticed, we women, by women who have ido before us, those most at risk of poverty as older women after divorce. We 'VE warned that to avoid having any idea what's happening with all our debt, investment, and the assets are put at serious financial risk.

Nobody wants to believe that things happen sad, that confidence that we will be a partner broken. This disease will strike, this loss is unfathomable take root. Hopefully none of that will happen. But the thing is, he does often. So if you pay accounts each month but put it 't know what ' s believed that happens to the other interest-profit and investment, or how much debt you have, then you are not an equal financial partner, and you need to do one.

To save any of these things to one is an example of the serious lack of respect. Sure, if you choose to save two separate accounts, that 's great. But to be upfront with each other about how these accounts are funded, what is being passed, and agrees with how to resolve mutual financial goals.

Just put 't lose track of the money. We ourselves that

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