Financial Coaching for Your First Year of Marriage
Give your love, and your marriage, the gift of solid financial grounding
Research shows that money challenges are one of the major drivers of divorce. While lack of money can definitely be a stressor, it is not just the quantity that can strain a relationship. Rather, it is ones relationship with money, and how that relationship impacts one’s partner and marriage, that can cause such deep fissures. One can be wealthy and struggle deeply with money and one can have little yet possess deep comfort speaking of finances—and vice versa.
Money is more than just math—it is the emotions, behaviors, hopes, fears, hurts, joys, disappointments, and opportunities (or lack thereof) that are also present. If it were just math, money would be easier to talk about, save, spend, invest, donate, and use to create the lives, communities, and world we want and need.
Instead, many people have not been taught about money, or are told it is private, or shameful. Unfortunately, this can have far-reaching impact on how we think of and handle money.
It is vital to know your money stories and relationship to them. In doing so, you can better understand how your life experiences impact your present decisions and future goals, and you can better communicate this with your parther. When each of you are able to do so, you will be better equipped to walk through any challenges which arise.
It is possible to find greater clarity and ease with money—for yourselves and for your marriage.
As a rabbi and financial coach, I would be honored to journey with you in your first year of marriage as you talk through, and prepare for, a life on a solid financial ground. Not just the dollars and cents, the investments but the sense of peace knowing that the two of you are addressing one of