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.
The tell-tale signs of financial instability include overspending, high debt, little to no money saved, borrowing money often to cover living expenses, constantly shifting living arrangements, and more. Here's why a partner who exhibits these signs may keep your relationship stagnate.
“The happiness you seek has to be based on your version of happiness and not someone else’s. Defining your own happiness quotient is key.”
It certainly won't be fun, but it's absolutely necessary.
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.
It’s unfair when one person has to be the nay-sayer, always telling the other one that they can’t buy this or that. If you both know what you have and what you can afford, then you won’t even ask to have things you can’t afford in the first place.
If your partner needs money because he spent money irresponsibly in the first place, well, sadly, he’ll just have to feel the burn and learn his lesson. You should never, ever lend money to someone who has a proven track record of mishandling money.