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Embrace Your Money Personality to Find Financial Unity

When the God-given money types work together in unity, not only can couples reach their financial goals, but they can also achieve a level of relationship health that transcends monetary value.

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Conquering the Spending Problem

Spending money is easy and fun until you realize you’ve spent too much. Learn how to conquer your spending problem with these simple suggestions.

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Budgeting for Christmas With Your Spouse

For so many couples, Christmas and the gift-giving experience can move from feelings of anticipation to disappointment. The Palmers share ways to turn frustrating exchanges into opportunities.

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Tithing When Your Spouse Objects

Because tithing involves money, it is a prime candidate for controversy and marital conflict.

Couple reviewing documents at home, facing financial infidelity in their marriage.

Is Financial Infidelity Hurting Your Marriage?

A growing number of Americans hide credit cards and bank accounts from spouses. Financial infidelity can damage your bottom line and destroy your marriage.

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Cash Clash: How To Talk About Budgeting

If you and your spouse argue about the same money issues over and over, it may be time to look below the surface.

"How can my spouse and i get out of debt?" This is the question this couple asked of their financial advisor and now they are sitting down at the table together, going over their budget and spending, and finding ways to get out of debt.

How Can My Spouse and I Get Out of Debt?

Many marriages are blessed with a spouse who is a live-life-to-its-fullest spender, while the other spouse saves each penny. But too often, husbands and wives end up feeling like they’re on opposing teams.

A couple sits on a couch looking concerned while reviewing a financial document, illustrating the impact of destructive attitudes that can keep you in debt.

5 Destructive Attitudes Keeping You in Debt

Changing your financial situation starts with deliberate choices to defeat the destructive attitudes that are keeping you in debt. The way you do that is by consciously replacing destructive thoughts with truthful and beneficial ones.

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How to End Conflicts with Money in Your Marriage

A practical way to communicate about your finances is to create a “money huddle.” It’s not a budget-planning session; it’s a time to address the emotional side of money.

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Teach Kids About Money

Learn what to do to teach your kids about their finances, your giving of allowances and more.

A smiling couple holds a piggy bank together, symbolizing their shared approach to managing money and finances in their marriage.

Money and Marriage: Is It His, Hers, or Ours?

Money is a common cause of friction for married couples, and it’s no wonder.

Finances for teens teaches smart money habits early

Simple Keys to Launch a Financially Fit Teen

Does your teen grasp the reality of money matters? Four practical ways to get your teens financially fit

A couple sits at a desk high-fiving each other, representing teamwork and success, illustrating how to get on the same financial page as your spouse.

How To Get on the Same Financial Page As Your Spouse

Having trouble getting your spouse to help with money issues or join the get-out-of-debt crusade? Here’s help.

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Financially Healthy Marriages Require More Than Money

Couples often struggle with their differing money personalities and the destructive attitudes that keep them in debt. Mary Hunt offers insights to help couples find hope.

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Managing Money as a Couple Through Every Season of Marriage

Every decade of married life presents its own financial risks and opportunities, and planning ahead can lay the groundwork for making wise money choices throughout the many years you’ll share together.

Money Management in Marriage

Make your marriage stronger by tackling the issue of money management in marriage.

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Pursuing Financial Unity

With all of the differences between you and your spouse, is it possible to pursue financial unity?

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Single Again: Managing the Financial Fallout

Seventy percent of all married women will be widowed, and marriages today have a 41 to 43 percent chance of ending in divorce. Will you be financially prepared?

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Communicating About Money

Divorced couples have revealed that money is one of the main reasons for their breakups.

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Divorced: Living Well in the Future

The financial consequences of divorce on single mothers are often devastating. In my experience in counseling those who have gone through a divorce, I’ve concluded that couples rarely do as well separately as they did together. It’s important from a biblical perspective, however, not to be resentful, bitter, or fearful. Rather, you need to be …