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When you join lives, you have no choice but to join your finances. You certainly don’t need to actually join bank accounts, make your partner a beneficiary of your life insurance policy, or add your honey to your credit card. Those are decisions that come much later. But even if you’re just a couple who has been together in the three to five year range and lives together, your financial situations begin to affect one another’s. If you want to spend time together, live under the same roof, and build a future with one another, you can’t act like money isn’t a thing. Money comes up several times a day. Who are we kidding? It’s lurking behind most of our conversations. When you so much as pick out a restaurant for dinner, you’re both thinking about the prices. Here are awkward financial situations every couple faces.

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