Love and moolah
Posted on February 13th, 2009 – 4:10 PMBy Kara McGuire
Have no idea what to get your lover for Valentine’s Day? Forget the chocolate, roses and champagne, says new research discussed on Science Friday about how experiences bring more happiness than things.
Valentine’s Day also brings out the surveys and tips on love and money. Here are some of the gems.
“People tend to marry their financial opposites,” according to a press release for an article in Success Magazine. Readers, do you find this is true? In my own marriage, we are opposite when it comes to who’s good at paying bills, saving money using coupons/shopping sales, but our financial values are the same and that’s what matters most, I think.
According to the LIFE Foundation, an insurance awareness non-profit made up of insurance industry types, found seven in ten couples would trade V-Day celebrating die financial peace of mind.
Well, yeah, if our finances are in order, we could buy our sweetheart a gift some other day of the year, right? The Foundation is suggesting a practical way to show your love is (drumroll please)…buy insurance!
The third annual PayPal survey revealed that the recession is changing the dynamics of some couples’ financial relationship. More than 40 percent of U.S. couples say that the recession is causing them to argue more about moolah. And about a quarter of couples have been hiding purchases from their S.O. this year. Tsk, tsk. That is a recipe for long term trouble, in my opinion.
Those of you in a relationship, share your tried and true tips for money bliss? What is it that makes your relationship work?
3 Responses to "Love and moolah"
“… celebrating DIE financial piece of mind.”
Move your fingers 1 key right… 
Kara - Chapter 4 of my book. Includes practical elements for a couple to structure and implement their discretionary spending to maintain “marital money bliss.”
My wife and I share the same financial values. Where we differ is that we do not share the same interest in finance.
Every now and then there is a raised eyebrow regarding a purchase - but nothing more than that. The most common raised eyebrow? When one of us buys groceries and fails to check on what we already have in stock.
Shared values make this work.
Both of us came from families of modest means. We were also both unemployed at the same time in the early 1980’s and that established a frugal precedent for us as a couple.
