If you’d like to make some investments together with your savings, it’s important that you have the same ideas about investing. It’s particularly important that you have the same risk tolerance. You may want to play it safe. In fact, research has found that women have a lower risk tolerance when it comes to investing than men do. He may want to go big. If he leans your direction, he could resent you if he sees riskier stocks rise. If you go his direction, you may resent him if your money plummets. And what about your values? You may want to invest only in what you deem “ethical” companies, while he’s more willing to just follow the earnings, wherever they take him.
There may not be a right or wrong answer to the question.
No matter how much someone loves her spouse, she could be in possession of a family heirloom—like a property—that is explicitly only meant to stay within her bloodline. So, while her children may have it, her husband just can’t. That’s what the documents say.
Always have the perspective to understand that having a landscaper who chose the wrong type of bonsai tree product for your estate is not a real problem. As such, don’t let it upset you or take up mental real estate as if it’s a real problem. Don’t let it cause fights as if it’s a real problem.
During my single years, I dated all sorts of guys—I’m talking different personalities, professions, backgrounds, religions, physical appearances, and more. But one of the most interesting dynamics for me to observe was how dating wealthy versus not-so-wealthy (and even broke) men was different. The truth is that, I never felt very comfortable when a man […]
You’d love to think that you’ll be together forever. But, do you believe that enough to, say, go halfsies on your furniture? All $3,000 worth of it? That will be a mess to split up if you two, well, split up.
Being broke on your own and being broke in a relationship are two totally different animals. When you’re broke on your own, you don’t really feel like your financial status is bringing anyone down. In fact, you can do a decent job of hiding your financial status. But when you’re in a relationship, and you’re […]
No matter how feminist a man may be, it does something to his self-esteem to depend on his girlfriend for financial support.
(Wall Street Journal) — Ask any married couple and you’ll hear: Marriage is complicated. Ask any financial planner, though, and you’ll hear: Not being married is often even more complicated. Unmarried couples, they’ll explain, aren’t eligible for many of the same legal protections or advantages as married couples, which makes thinking carefully about the future even […]