Description
Your Guide to Managing the Real Dollars--and the Real Emotions--of Your Relationship
Too often with money, couples face two choices: fight and risk making the situation worse, or keep quiet and risk making the situation worse. Financially Ever After offers a third option: family financial fluency--the insight, knowledge, and vocabulary every couple needs to communicate effectively about money.
Jeff D. Opdyke, previously The Wall Street Journal's syndicated Love & Money columnist, covers any and all financial issues that couples face, including budgeting, deciding on whether to have joint or individual accounts, dividing up family financial chores, confronting debt, making major purchases, as well as handling mortgages, employment, children, and even engagement rings. He offers dozens of real-life scenarios between couples, with scripts and suggestions for how to broach delicate money-related subjects with your significant other, whether he or she has a shaky credit history or is feeling left out of family financial decision-making.
The book also provides helpful tools to organize your financial life, such as a budgeting chart, a scorecard to track spending, and an affordability calculator to help you figure out how much buying a house will cost you.
A must-read for any couple starting out, Financially Ever After lays the groundwork for building a healthy and thriving financial life together.
Author: Jeff D. Opdyke
Publisher: Harper Business
Published: 03/31/2009
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.36w x 0.45d
ISBN13: 9780061358180
ISBN10: 0061358185
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Personal Finance | Money Management
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | Success