{"id":8077,"date":"2016-08-25T04:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauradoyle1.wpengine.com\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:34:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:34:55","slug":"marriage-and-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/marriage-and-finances\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage and Finances"},"content":{"rendered":"

If only getting married made your finances as cinchy as economists make it seem like they\u2019re gonna be.<\/p>\n

Sharing the rent or mortgage, the grocery bills and utilities saves so much money, there should be less financial strain on you both–not more.<\/p>\n

And study after study shows that married couples are at the top of the financial heap for net worth and earning.<\/p>\n

But even though we have more than our unmarried counterparts, somehow husbands and wives fight about money more than anything else.<\/p>\n

My husband and I contributed to that miserable statistic for years.<\/p>\n

Fighting about money is not conducive to intimacy, and it wasn\u2019t helpful for our prosperity, either.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, I finally learned what I\u2019m about to share with you, and we haven\u2019t had a fight about money at the Doyle house in many years.<\/p>\n

Here are 4 simple ways we got closer and richer as a couple:<\/p>\n

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