Monday, July 20, 2009
By the Way What's the Most Important Thing In Life? Not the Availability of a Good Wine List
Posted by Tracy Moore on Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:35 AM
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In addition to horrifying job loss, it seems one more casualty of the recession is romantic relationships. Once you jetted around the world with your significant other eating lobster and oysters, and now he doesn't know where the next paycheck is coming from. So is it Applebee's or kaput?
I'm suspicious of these types of trend stories. Money has always been a source of friction between couples, married or cohabitating--so any time there's less juice, many go the way of the dodo. And the recession adds more stress than the usual ups and downs of money management, because job loss creates a whole different kind of strain.
But I have to ask: Are relationships that can't withstand money matters all that sturdy in the first place? Talk to me, old-timers. Can a dud economy really ruin an otherwise strong union?
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Money issues put stress on any relationship. This is nothing new. At the same time many folks getting married today are pretty clueless about finances. That has nothing to do with how "sturdy" your relationship may be, how "real" your love is, or whatever. But the reality is, these days kids getting married already have a lot of debt, from college loans to credit cards. And often, our finances are the last thing we talk about when we get hitched: we talk about STDs more readily than how much we owe on our credit cards.
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Southern Beale
on July 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM
