How to Manage Money when Husband Doesn’t Share

There have been several times when wives are attempting to manage the money and their husbands don’t share the money he makes. So how do you manage the money when “his income is missing”? I am glad you asked that question. Is he giving her just enough money to pay the household bills and there [...]

Accomplish the most Economically

Money management lesson – challenge yourself to become a great money manager that can accomplish the most economically. How do you do this you ask? Well, this weekend I was determined to go over our budget because I knew that my husband had some big projects coming up the following week and he would need [...]

Financial Trust in Marriage

Financial trust is huge when it comes to marriage. Trust according to Webster’s means that you can rely on the integrity, strength and even confidence of another person.  So when it comes to financial trust in marriage – you should be able to trust that your spouse will do the right thing with the finances if [...]

Financial Code Blue – What will you do?

For a lot of marriages they are in a financial code blue. The economy has sent marriages into a financial code blue like never before. For those of you that might not know what I am talking about – a financial code blue means that your money and marriage is about to flat line. What [...]

Husband’s finances handled by his parents

For the wife whose husband’s parents are handling the finances, before you go off the deep end, let me ask a few questions: 1) Were they handling his money prior to marriage? 2) Have you asked him why they are handling his money which is now I am assuming, the marriage money? 3) How do [...]

Husband depressed because of finances

Is your husband depressed because of the lack of finances you have and its the holidays? If this is your situation, what have you done to re-evaluate your overall financial picture and remove unnecessary expenses. I must tell you, evaluating your financial picture is important because you should be able to find there is money [...]

Child Support is Lacking

For the women that were wives at one time and are now single mothers, I want to address what do you do if the child support is lacking or not regular. First and foremost when you are the primary parent that provides ongoing care, financial support, educational encouragement and everything else you are the mother [...]

Marriage is a challenge when financially broke

This is such a true statement. However, it does not have to remain a challenge if you and the husband are willing to talk about money issues in marriage and establish a plan to get out of debt. Let me share what happens to a married husband and wife when you are financially broke: (1) [...]

Spouse’s Previous Financial Burden Cause Divorce

I have heard it a few times and it probably happens more times than we hear about. A spouse’s financial burden from his past can (and has) lead to a divorce with the current wife. Why does this happen? Several reasons this can happen which I will detail below. First and foremost, his money issues were [...]