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Domestic Violence Awareness Month: What Does Unsafe Look Like When it Comes to Your Money?
Key Takeaways Recognizing Financial Abuse It’s well known that money can be super triggering in relationships! Study after study finds that fighting about money is one of our greatest relationship challenges. Arguments about money cause more divorce than even infidelity! When does handling money within our relationships become more dangerous than a repetitive argument? Financial…
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Celebrating Independence! How Financially Independent are You?
Hoping everyone had a fun, safe and healthy 4th of July! Along with celebrating our National Independence, how about touching on the importance of becoming financially independent?! There are many reasons that financial independence is crucial to living a balanced, autonomous and functional life. Below, we will explore a couple of those relating to living debt-free and our…
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Money Mindset: Four Actions to Expand Your Capacity for Calm!
Last week, we touched on the physiological responses in the body that might fire up when we’re triggered around any stressor–including our money!. We talked about what that might look and feel like, and some mindfulness tools we might use to navigate our way back to calm whenever we’re feeling like we might need to…
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Money & Romance: Post-Divorce
We talked about what to consider before divorce, as well as navigating divorce. Now, let’s touch on a few things to do coming out the other side, in order to move forward with confidence and a financial plan intact! According to statistics, divorce can result with women experiencing a 27% financial decline, while men sometimes actually experience a…
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Money & Romance: Navigating Divorce
We looked at what to keep in mind when considering a divorce, but what if your mind is made up, and/or you’re right in the thick of it? Read below for just a few things to prioritize when it comes to making the best decisions for your finances, and, as always—not legal advice, ever! There are…
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Money & Romance: Considering Divorce
Continuing down the Money & Romance rabbit hole..what are the financial implications to think about when considering a divorce? Since statistics have shown that, post-divorce, women experience a significantly larger decrease in their standard of living than men (thank you, Wage Gap!) it’s important that they advocate for themselves and their financial outcomes wholeheartedly thru…
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Money & Romance: Conflict & Financial Infidelity
Since we know what an emotionally-loaded subject money can be, as it directly tugs on our feelings of safety and survival, it’s no wonder that it’s one of the most common reasons that couples fight, or ultimately, separate and/or divorce. According to a Fidelity Investments study, 44% of couples say they argue about their finances,…
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Money & Romance: Married Couples
Married Couples.. To Combine Finances or Not to Combine Finances? What’s the best way for YOU BOTH to manage money in your relationship? You’ve got options! Once you’ve had an oh-so-important initial money history convo, shared common goals, disclosed debts, etc. it’s time to move on to the technical aspects of how you will manage the…
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Money & Romance: Engaged Couples
This one goes out to all those couples who are engaged! Congratulations! Now, to pre-nup..or not to pre-nup? And..what if I told you, if you live in a handful of states with “Community Property” laws (AZ, CA, ID, LA, NV, NM, TX, WA, WI), a pre-nuptial agreement is your only way to decide what YOU want to happen with…
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Money & Romance: Unmarried Couples
Continuing down the love & money path..odds are, you or someone you know is living together in a partnership unmarried. This is a growing group of people! At the end of 2022, for example, 17M people were living together but not married. That’s three times as many as twenty years prior! 15% of people aged…
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