Money is the cause of a lot of relationship breakdowns. It’s a massive part of life, so hard to not let it have an effect on our day to day lives and relationships

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Money and different views on it can cause problems; it is important to come to mutual agreement on money.

We are both on the same page when it comes to money.

We’re pretty good with this – largely on the same page.

Money seems to be the cause of a lot of issues. Whether you have too much or too little the problems it can cause are huge.

Finances are one of the major issues in many relationships. It doesn’t matter how little or how much money you have.

a budget done together might help

I agree money is a big issue in relationships.

We don’t that issue as husband and wife.

money makes the world go round or your world stop. being a pensioner, its hard to not let it run my life

Yes it is but you have control over your own finances and more importantly your happiness so do what you have to to find happiness everything else will fall into place.

My husband and I don’t really have this issue. I deal with all the money and he’s happy for me to just tell him how much money we have each week and if he wants to buy something, whether we can afford it or not. Doesn’t mean it’s not stressful for both of us, particularly when we’ve been living very frugally on occasion but I also think there’s more important things than money. We’ve always lived by this – “As long as we have each other and the girls, nothing else matters. We will get through it”. And it’s certainly proven true for us.

when we have been short of money we have been more stressed resulting in more arguements

It is a matter of working out what your goals are and both working towards them. I have always handled the bank accounts and my husband paying the bills. I think this way we both knew what we were spending on.

I think everyone needs to be on the same track with how they spend/save – I don’t think just ONE person should be in charge of managing the money

It’s not ever been an issue for us – but then, our money “personalities” are very similar.

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  • • hopefullyheidi replied
    • 08 May 2014 , 10:15 pm

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  Spot on – money “personalities” being similar I think is the key to it not causing issues.

Everyone has different opinions on how money is spent in the household. We need to negotiate and compromise.

It can be the root of all evil if you guys let it, take the time to work out your expensives and work out a budget that your happy with
I know when my partner and i were moving in together years ago, he was worried I was going to be super strict with money, and he likes to spend a bit more than I do,

it causes a lot of issues, especially of one person feels the other is being taken advantage of, or one is spending more than the other etc..