Financial Intimacy: How to Create a Healthy Relationship with Your Money and Your Mate
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Financial Intimacy: How to Create a Healthy Relationship with Your Money and Your Mate

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There is a commonly held perception that we don’t talk about money. Actually, we talk about it all the time—we are just having the wrong conversation. The result: finances fracture and even destroy many relationships. In this timely book, money expert Jacquette M. Timmons addresses the financial issues that couples face, examining how family background, personal choices, a...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published October 1st 2009 by Chicago Review Press (first published 2009)
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Jeremy
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Boy did I not realize this book was written for African-American women. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the title and/or subtitle could have been a little more informative in this regard.

The best thing about the book is that the author points out that we don't manage money or time, we manage decisions. Money and time a finite, unchangeable quantities that are measured, so choices about money and time are what we are actually managing.

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Financial Intimacy is an excellent guide for approaching the awkward issues surrounding finances in a relationship. It spurred me to re-assess my own attitudes toward money.
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