I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been asked to contribute regularly over at Money Circle. I’ll be posting links so that you can read my articles when they’re published. My first one went live last night.
When I first moved in with my boyfriend, now husband, my mother gave me some good advice: “Never fight about money. Fighting won’t magically create more money, so it doesn’t do any good.”
Leaving aside the ways in which fighting does make a small subset of people a lot of money (WWE, UFC, Reality TV), she was completely right. Which is not unusual, when you think about advice given by mothers everywhere.
My husband and I have been together for nine years now, married for two. We have three children. In our time together, we’ve gone through various money woes, but we’ve always managed to talk about it openly and honestly, without fighting… Read More at Money Circle
In both marriages we rarely discussed money issues. Looking back now, I wish we had especially in the first marriage. But when I was growing up we kids never ever heard anything about money, how it was earned, how it was to be spent, not a thing. I didn’t realise these things were discussed. Of course we knew dad worked and got paid, mum shopped and spent, but that was pretty much all we knew. I thought that was how things were supposed to be done. We knew that other kids had pocket money (not many kids) but how or why they had it we didn’t know. I’m horrified now at the ignorance I was raised in.
lovely article 🙂
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