How to get into the same page with the external spouse of spending

When a married couple are not financially on the same page, life can be very difficult. If you have different views to keep 10% or 20% of retirement or if you have different views in the best way to save college, one thing. But what if you have completely contradictory ideas, such as a family should spend or have to keep college at all? Divisions can feel very deep.

One partner may be a global booking site, in the Chagrin of the spouse (because they have a large asset of hundreds of dollars for student loans). One partner may have issued a trip card to Costco and the target, although they spend more than the house receives.

Or as one of the e-mail wrote to me a few years ago:

“In the end, the recurring concept of residents and colleagues often bring this money to spend money with him?

This is a major problem for many doctors. Many times, the doctor is a stage. The fact is that this is not a financial crisis. It is a serious relationship problem, and cannot be repaired without remedying relationships. There is a good chance that counseling is in order. But let’s try to deal with.

OCT OF THE PROVINCTION

Marriage

Since every doctor can, the prevention ounce is expelling a pound of treatment. The best way to avoid having a spending partner to avoid getting married in mathematical. I’m wrong with this. Six major conflicts in any marriage, gender, religion, religion, children and politics.

My wife and I “talked” about us, while we were promised. We discussed all this to avoid surprise over time. Those a few hours we used to have the worst discussions (although the complex) blocked the amount of frustration and fighting 25 years ago. Yes, people change, and no, you cannot predict the future. But just because your crystal your ball has little clouds doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look at it.

Besides marriage with a specific sense of engagement, there is more to protect the problem. First, make sure you both expect a reality. Reading this blog and my book, visiting the Facebook Group, viewing the WCI stadium, etc., the key variety of understanding, is no foundation of Diving Diving Board directly. It is possible to spend all of the doctoral (or more) doctors’ money, and it is actually easy to do.

Budget

One way to prevent the problem is to answer regularly and continuously. My wife and I spent about a monthly budget process (that, these days, we actually track our use only). In this hour, it contains me with a test account and credit cards using a line while issuing social media and explains why we stayed $ 100 in this or that. Anything strange, we talk. Then, we put up with them how we do. It is an unusual month we use more than what we receive.

It is a pleasure to go back and see some of those budgets and laugh. But you know what, I have hundreds of the Excel files, and I can tell you more when all dollars has done since our wedding. It doesn’t take huge repetition of this activity to correct money problems. I know how you feel about money, and you know how I feel about it. We can all use us to feel specialized. However, we are still able to save more money to achieve our financial goals.

Prompt

Be careful about the promises you make from a maternal agent, living, relationships, and first few years due to residence. You can promise your spouse to finally be able to live a very comfortable life and spend a lot of money. But do not promise a new Audi right after receiving a steering degree or a house of 7,000 feet or credit card without limits. The power of life early will allow you to enjoy relaxing your money constraints later.

As Dr. Robert Doroghazi said, “I married a gold mining, my spouse throws.” No one is mine or I am I I can call “pain”. But you know what, we were saddened when we needed to exist, and now we need not. Now, we can use our money to increase your joy and simplify.

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Pound of therapy

Start talking about money

Unfortunately, your flux capacitor is full, and the “e-ridation method of the cvertyony” will not work. What can you do now? The first thing to start talking about money. This is a sensitive factor because any conversation ends with conflict (or bad, war) is not aware of stories. If only something wrong with your marriage is that one of you is a waste of money, divorce is almost quite – The solution. Besides, divorce does not decrease your income and a half goods, but also puts you both in high tax brackets and increase your life costs. The main financial solution is not.

Create a financial system together

How do you talk about money? You have to use them. It’s just a stack in Benjamin. It’s not about you. It’s not about your partner. It is a plan that you want to be five, 10, and 20 years from now. Focus on your goals for the future, and work your way back to your statement about your gift. Your spouse is not a fool. They know that if you spend everything you do, you cannot afford a loan, send children to college, or retire at 60. But sometimes it’s hard to connect those hidden spaces or 100 shoes quoted on the closet.

This also cannot be one-time conversation. Or don’t want to ‘be a budget stress,’ Just start following the money you used. Try it for 1-3 months. Of course the action of writing down when all dollars travels illegally. Also, if you really should justify the use of your money in another month, you will not be a surprise and spending your money on things that are really unhappy.

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Assured You You don’t have a problem

And you want to make sure the problem has no. If you want to save 40% of your retirement salary but your spouse wants to save 20%, the problem is not your spouse. Sometimes those who saves you need little to free, want to be bad. Also, the goals come down. Similarly, make sure you do not use money to make sure control. I usually find that men, especially, control the wrong income of family money. It is not a financial crisis, but has financial results.

Major Steps

Some people are addicted to waste money. Can be a blanket. Either holiday or restaurants. It can be an expensive for recreation. Even the monthly conversation, for a long hour. Time to go to the program B. What is the Plan B? Budget with envelopes, LA Dave Ramsey.

Given a maximum medical rate of money, this can be a generous budget without contributing your strength to achieving important financial purposes. The key is to set a higher limit in the spending. If you or your spouse (or both) find saving 20% + of your income for difficulty, you may not use credit cards at all. When you are paid, place your spouse’s money to use anything in the envelope. When it’s gone, it’s gone. It works for young people, and if a partner cannot handle money better than teens, it will work.

Some people are so glad to have the rest on them because then they can use the innocent income. But if someone has problems and alcohol, you are not using alcohol. If they have a problem spending, then it is up to anything but the green things need to be removed.

Personal money is just that: itself. But if you want a strong marriage, one is going. Sharing the same bed, bathroom, kitchen, and children. You should be able to share the same financial system.

What do you think? Have you had a spending partner? Are you an overworked person? What did you do about it? Did it work?

[This updated post was originally published in 2014.]