#64: How do you have difficult conversations about money when you’re dating? What words should you use? What do you do if the conversations go south?

This week, I invited Megan McCoy and Ed Coambs, two leading couples therapists who specialize in financial therapy and conflict, to share insights about how to talk about money matters when you’re dating.

We discuss:

• Questions to ask (and behaviors to observe) early in a relationship to learn your partner’s financial values
• Tips for asking sensitive money-related questions that don’t rub your partner the wrong way
• How to handle it if your partner does get defensive or reacts the wrong way
• Tips for attracting a partner who shares your financial values
• What to do if you’ve met “the one” but have totally different mindsets and behaviors about money

Check it out here:

https://hackyourwealth.com/money-dating

How have you approached talking about money when dating? What tips and best practices have worked for you? What advice do you have for other couples? Let me know by leaving a comment.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Ed Coambs’ Healthy Love & Money
• Ed Coambs’ Charlotte Couples Counseling
• Megan McCoy, Ph.D., LMFT
• Money Scripts article; Klontz Money Script Inventory
• Brad Klontz’s How Clients’ Money Scripts Predict Their Financial Behaviors
• Prepare Enrich workbook for couples
• Dew, J., & Dakin, J. (2011). Financial Disagreements and Marital Conflict Tactics. Journal of Financial Therapy, 2 (1) 7
• Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
• Healing Your Attachment Wounds: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships
• HYW private Facebook community

 Intro/Outro: Old Bossa by Twin Musicom.