How You And Your Partner Can Be Good Financial Influences On Each Other
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MadameNoire
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Agree to resist social pressure
Have a talk about social pressure. Spending habits are usually easy enough to stick to until other people get involved. Like friends inviting you to happy hour or to split a vacation house for “only $400 a person.” Or to split a limo to a wedding together. We want to feel close to our friends, and it can seem like spending the same way they do keeps us close. I won’t lie: being on a very different budget than friends can feel distancing. But you can work around that by having them over for dinners, meeting in the park, and doing more affordable things to make up for the pricey mimosa brunch you sat out. You’ll need to agree as a couple to resist social pressure to overspend.
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