4 Quick Tips to Getting Over Your Money Arguments

Money arguments are a normal part of the marriage relationship. So it is important to have a framework for working through those arguments. Here are four simple tips to help you get through the money fights.

1. Encourage Fun and Reassurance. Identify ways that you can have fun together outside of the arguments you are having about money.

2. Be Giving and Loving. Develop an attitude of gratitude for the things your partner is doing right.

3. Shift Your Mentality from Poverty to Wealth. Identify the things that you do have (i.e. job, house, cars, each other, kids, etc.) instead of being focused on what you do not have.

4. Move from Provoking to Play. If you are fighting about money all the time, then set boundaries around the time when you will have "money talks". Something like Mondays from 6 - 7 pm. Keep the time short and consistent. If either spouse brings up money issues outside of that time, then the other spouse is allowed to do something playful or ridiculous like taking of their clothing until the other partner stops.


Please leave a comment with how you work through your money arguments.

Feel free to give me a call to talk more, 980-275-1627.

Regards,
Ed Coambs

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