Don't let your Valentine's Day be filled with the pressure to spend...
Valentine's Day can be a great opportunity to create more intimacy and connection in your relationship. We put a lot pressure on doing something big and expensive, when in reality, romance can be created easily without spending a lof money.
Watch as we share with you some of our favorite ways to create real intimacy on Valentine's Day - or any day that you choose to celebrate your love for one another!
The strange manifestations of money woes in a new marriage.
What's worth more? Your marriage or an icemaker? It seems like an easy question to answer. But managing finances within a marriage—when to splurge and when to save—is one of the biggest challenges that couples face. Jennifer Patterson Samuel, author of 52 Fights: A Newlywed's Confession says women have the reputation as spenders when men often are buying the big indulgences. Like the $1200 icemaker her husband had to have.
Ready to split but cash-strapped, some couples are finding divorce too expensive.
As the economy slows the cost of a divorce increases. Job loss. Mortgage defaults. Slowing housing market. They all factor in when going through a divorce. Is divorce becoming a luxury? With the high price tag on divorce, some couples have gone to the extreme. Many couples continue living together until they can afford a divorce. Some couples even reconcile because they simply cannot afford the cost of a divorce. One attorney recalls a client who moved into the computer server room in his office because he couldn't afford a new place. Many couples today are legally separating until they iron out their financial issues and settle debts.
