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| Are You Financially Compatible Enough to Marry? |
| Published: September 27, 2007, 5:22 am |
| Tags: Personal Finance, Relationships, Marriage, Meredith H Kaiser |
| By Meredith H. Kaiser Women, in addition to spending hours poring over encyclopedic bridal magazines, I wish you would spend that same amount of time with your future spouse talking over these important points before you decide if you two should get married at all. In twenty years, the veil you selected will not come [...] |
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| How to Make Weddings More Affordable for Your Guests |
| Published: November 10, 2007, 5:01 am |
| Tags: Personal Finance, Relationships, Marriage, Shana Murray |
| By Shana Murray Planning a wedding can get pretty expensive, especially when you have to pay for it yourselves, but no one ever talks about how expensive weddings can be for your guests. Unfortunately, you will get to the age where all of your relatives and friends start getting married at the same time [...] |
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| Five Simple Financial Commitments to a Better Marriage |
| Published: November 14, 2007, 2:01 am |
| Tags: Saving Money, Shopping, Relationships, Marriage |
| By David John Marotta No married couple wants a scandal, even if it is just financial in nature. Money problems can ruin the love affair with your spouse. The work of blending two lives in harmony requires certain basic commitments. Many families today are financially troubled. Most of these are in denial. The rest of [...] |
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| Money Communication with Weekly Pow-wows |
| Published: November 16, 2007, 5:01 pm |
| Tags: Budgeting, Personal Finance, Relationships, Marriage, Marilyn Brodeur |
| By Marilyn Brodeur Shortly after my husband and I got engaged, he asked to take a look at how much I had in student loans. He knew that my graduate program cost a lot, but had no idea how much in the red I was. He bought the rock which proved to me that [...] |
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| Money Communication with Weekly Pow-wows |
| Published: November 16, 2007, 5:01 pm |
| Tags: Budgeting, Personal Finance, Relationships, Marriage, Marilyn Brodeur |
| By Marilyn Brodeur Shortly after my husband and I got engaged, he asked to take a look at how much I had in student loans. He knew that my graduate program cost a lot, but had no idea how much in the red I was. He bought the rock which proved to me that [...] |
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| When spouses have different sleeping patterns; night owls versus early birds |
| Published: March 8, 2008, 11:13 am |
| Tags: Relationships, Marriage, Briefly Noted |
| We all know the benefits of "early to bed, early to rise..." and most people in middle age are forced into this regimen by their commutes, family obligations, a desire to exercise, etc. But a certain percentage of the population (estimated anywhere from 5 to 30%) simply cannot get with the early bird program. Their biological clocks just don't |
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| Long Distance Proposals Are they as successful as in-person ones? |
| Published: May 8, 2008, 9:05 pm |
| Tags: Engagement Proposal Writing, Engagement And Wedding Planning, Long Distance Relationships, Marriage Proposal, Military, Relationships, Will You Marry Me |
| If you are in the military, work on different Coasts, go to school in different countries or for any other reason you are geographically separated from your future fianc e and are ready to propose, you may be a little hesitant to ask him/her to marry you do to the fear of rejection. You may feel that it is necessary to look |
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| I Was a Good Wife All Week. Why Do I Feel Sad Monday Morning? |
| Published: May 19, 2008, 10:49 am |
| Tags: Relationships, Marriage, Discussion |
| to try for a healthier marriage rather than an affair or walking away, to ease the pain I feel over how my life has turned out. Why? Because of the potential rewards to be found in working out problems instead of tossing them out the door. I think there must be a baby in that basin of dirty bathwater. After all, who else would know you and |
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