Financial Intimacy 

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Amanda Grossman, author of a website called “Frugal Confessions” defines Financial Intimacy as “Each of you being able to work together and share your thoughts, feelings, needs, and desires about money with your partner in a safe space where you feel you are being heard and your needs are being reasonably met.

She notes that managing money with someone else is a work-in-progress -- just like marriage.  

One of her exercises to promote financial intimacy is to interview your partner about money. She gives a few starter questions to help you learn more about how your beloved views and manages money, such as:

• How much money does a person need to have for you to consider them rich?

• What’s one thing you used to believe about money when you were a kid but have since figured out was wrong?

• You have $500 that magically appears in your pocket. You have to spend it on something. What would you spend it on?

• What’s one money memory you have from childhood? How did it make you feel?

This activity is an adaptation from an entry in Amanda Grossman’s website, “Frugal Confessions”.  

Visit https://www.frugalconfessions.com/financial-intimacy/financial-exercises-for-couples/ to read the entire website article.