Do You Not Share, With Your Partner, Information About the Money You Spend?
This one is about my husband and me. It's about financial fidelity . And I'm afraid we don't have it. We've managed fidelity on everything else but money has always been a problem, maybe because we met and married after we'd both established careers, and held on to our separate checking accounts, according to newswise.com. But a new study says that, though r omantic relationships are built on trust — when it comes to money, even faithful part ners are not always honest about their spending and saving habits. "New research from the University of Notre Dame introduces the concept of financial infidelity — engaging in any financial behavior likely to be frowned upon by a romantic partner and intentionally failing to disclose that behavior," the web site reports. The study is the first to introduce, define and measure financial infidelity reliably and succinctly and to examine its antecedents and consequences. I'm a spender. He's a sav...