How to Stop Fighting About Money with Your Spouse

How to Effectively Manage Financial Differences to Improve Your Relationship for Good

“The handling of finances is one of the major emotional battlegrounds of any marriage. Lack of finances is seldom the issue. The root problem seems to be an unrealistic and immature view of money.”

- David Augsburger, The Meaning of Money in Marriage

Money and marriage, if there is a deadlier combination, I do not know of it.

Money is one of the major causes of strife in a marriage and one of the leading reasons why marriages fail.

In many marriages, the most common area of angst is that one person is an overspender and the other is forced to become (or naturally is) the controller. It can be an exhausting tug-of-war because firstly, who the hell likes to be controlled and secondly, who the hell wants to parent their partner?

When you get married you join forces with another and for better or worse, you…