The Importance of Having a Financial Discussion With Your Partner Before Marriage

When you get married, you are not just marrying your partner – you are also marrying their financial situation. This is something that many couples do not think about until it is too late.

Before you walk down the aisle, it is important to discuss your financial concerns with your partner. This blog post will discuss the most important financial concerns you should discuss with your partner before marriage.

Helpful Attributes We Need to Have in Life and Our Finances

 

We all develop attributes in life based on life experiences, circumstances, and financial situations. Patience and discipline are two important characteristics developed over time that help us on our life journey in making decisions about our finances. 

Need money now? Then this blog is for you

It is regular to care for economic barriers or unanticipated expenditures that might leave you strapped for cash. For example, a person might shed their tasks prior to paying their rental charge, or their auto might ask for emergency situation scenario repair work. If you remain in such conditions as well as require cash currently, you need to read this evaluation.

Love & Marriage: The Future of Relationships

Falling in love and getting married are goals couples share when considering their future. Discussing finances and financial goals is part of this. A healthy, balanced relationship works when checking in with each other about finances. This communication can build a life plan for a stable future each partner wants.

4 travel benefits of credit cards you should never miss out on

If you are a frequent traveler, you will have at least one premium card. The premium credit cards are beneficial because of the reward points and flyer miles that you can accumulate with regular use. All of these advantages, coupled together, will lower your travel expenses, but you must understand where to look.

4 Tips Couples Can Use to Deploy an Effective Joint Investment Plan

After a couple falls in love, the next step for some people is to take their vows to live the happily-ever-after dream. Once married, most couples are committed to sharing everything including the money that they bring into the household. In fact, the money that the couple make can go toward a wide variety of things to make sure that everything that they own is paid on time and not late. Also, if they are both money smart, they may get together to devise an investment plan that they both can go by to build up a certain amount of financial wealth.

For better or Worse - Are Men Better Off Married?

Marriage is often joked about as being an expensive agreement. The “ball and chain”, the “old man”, the “nagging wife”…is it any wonder that many people are concerned that there aren’t any advantages to being legally tied together. Well, it so happens, that there are, and there have been lots of studies showing these benefits.

Beating the Odds: Marriage Survival Often Involves Open Financial Discussion

 Getting married is an exciting new adventure for young couples who are in love. You get to bond and create memories as you learn how to live together and share your everyday lives. Part of forming a healthy and lasting marriage is to have an open and honest conversation about finances and your goals for the future. Financial planning discussions do not need to be painful and full of arguments as there are plenty of tools you can use to make your future successful.

5 Money Saving Tips and Ideas for Stay at Home Moms and Dads

By Ann Neal
I have always been a stay-at-home-mom. It seems that the role suits me to a great extent and from tending to a garden with dexterity and knowing where to shop for the best groceries, I enjoy every single bit of it! The only bit that bothers me is the one when family members and friends have certain misconceptions regarding my choice. More often than not, I am greeted with raised eyebrows and advice by the dozen, “you know you could have done better for yourself as a career-oriented woman!”. Or the shocker, “you don’t venture much outside, do you?”. Imagine these ‘pearls of wisdom’ coming from your near and dear ones!

Easy Lifestyle Changes In Order To Make Big Savings

In the words of one major supermarket ‘every little helps’. This is very true when it comes to making adjustments to daily, weekly and monthly spending. Sometimes these may seem like tiny amounts, but if you follow a policy of saving money across the board then every penny you can keep in your pocket can really add up.

Some of the savings you make are easy to implement and often require nothing more than changing a routine or taking a moment or two to think first.

Tyrese Puts Date On Blast For Searching His Net Worth Before Their Night Out

While hanging out with a woman recently, Tyrese Gibson said he borrowed his date's phone briefly. And what did he find once he landed on her browser? Her last page visited showed she had just googled his net worth before coming out on the date.

The former singer, now more known for his role in the Fast & Furious movies,  immediately took to Instagram to put her on blast. He posted the picture above with the caption calling her ratchet, and asking if all ladies were now like that.

Tumblr Founder Splits From Girlfriend Who Started Dating Him Before The Money

Multimillionaire Tumblr founder, David Karp has split with his girlfriend of five years. The 28-year-old whiz kid started dating psychology graduate student and trained chef Rachel Eakley in 2009 but the couple broke up at the end of 2014, Dailymail reports.

The low-key couple, who lived together in a small West Village apartment before they moved to a $1.6 million loft in south Williamsburg in 2012, with their French-English Bulldog, were quiet about the breakup, but Eakley spoke about it briefly on her Tumblr page.

82-Year-Old Billionaire and His 25-Year-Old Wife Defend Their May-December Love

Do you remember the moneybag who paid $500k for a night at the famous Vienna ball with Kim Kardashian and then called her out for bad attitude? Last year, aged 81, the man married the 25 year old model he had been dating for less than a year. Well, the couple are speaking out and sharing their love story. Missed their wedding pics, see it here.

The former playboy model says she doesn't care that her multi-multimillionaire husband is 57 years her senior - her love for him has nothing to do with his age or his fortune. The couple appeared on This Morning on Monday to defend their relationship ahead of a documentary about their age-gap airing on Wednesday night.

D’Banj In Amsterdam As Court Summons For Bad Debt Overrun His House [Photos]

Nigerian musician D’Banj has been in Amsterdam for the past several days and in other countries of the world before then, including a few weeks in the US late last year. That was when the first news of his financial difficulties began to surface, with reports of pending legal action over unpaid thousands of dollars, read here.

A technology company, MindHub Technologies headed by Henry Ojogho claimed Dbanj was owing the company N15 million. Since then, things appear to have gotten worse. While Dbanj may be travelling on apparent philantropic missions and foreign endorsements, his staff are left unpaid and his house is plastered with court summons for bad debt.

On How To Spot A Stingy Guy - Must A Guy Spend On His Girlfriend?

Toke Makinwa spoke on the issue of stingy men in her weekly Vlog where she gave women pointers for identifying a stingy guy. I agree that being stingy is not a desirable trait in both men and women, and a giving spirit encourages one to reciprocate, but when Toke repeats several times, "a stingy man is bad for business", I wonder, what business are we talking about, are you a prostitute?

Toke goes on  to say;

He might be rich but “Is that money in circulation?... A stingy man is not the way forward, a stingy man is bad for business....some guys are so stingy that if you want to collect money from them, it's like squeezing a rock to bring out water..... a proper gentleman doesn't let a lady ask him for stuffs cos he knows she needs 'em...when a lady is scratching her hair, it's a sign for him to know that she needs to change her hair...Ladies if a man is not giving you money, close your LEGS!"

Again, I'm baffled. Close your legs? Must money from your romantic partner equate to sex? Are stuffs like fake hair, cars, bling, or restaurant outings, the only things women want from men? Should a guy even give his working girlfriend raw cash or gifts? Makes it look like an aristo arrangement.

For me, some things are more important than money in terms of being in a genuine relationship. These are support and understanding, respect and tolerance, and the spirit of compromise. Anyways, watch Toke's video below....

How Couples Should Manage Their Finances To Avoid Divorce Via Irreconcilable Differences

By Marvel Eke

Irreconcilable what? most divorce cases are usually related to financial differences. But none would want to admit it. Whenever you hear a couple, citing irreconcilable differences as their reason for divorce, look very well and you will discover it has to do with money.

It's only a few that's as a result of domestic violence or infidelity. Most of them are caused by financial issues.

Ask any divorce lawyer, and he or she will certainly confirm it (if they are sincere enough). Imagine asking a woman who's been so used to an extravagant lifestyle or wooed based on that before marrying her, to readjust or change her lifestyle due to economic reasons.

POLL - Ladies Choose One: A Broke Faithful Man or a Rich Cheater?

If these two were the only type of men available, broke and faithful or rich and a cheat, which would you choose? 

Vote as usual and let's discuss in the comments.

On the previous poll, Will You Have Sex in Public? turns out a lot of us are OK with public sex! These are the results.

5 Practical Tips on How to Manage Money in Marriage

Whether it’s before or after marriage, cash can cause a lot of trouble. Should it be my money, your money or our money? A recent survey states that more couples now prefer to have separate bank accounts. Is this a healthy trend? Most experts think it is, as long as they pitch in equal amount for household expenses. Here’s how you can sort your cash worries:

How a Wife Can Help Her Husband Get Rich and Stay Rich

By Uchendu E. Uchendu

The single most important thing a man can do to get rich and stay rich is to marry the right woman. This is so important that I’ll repeat it. The single most important thing a man can do to get wealthy and stay wealthy is to marry the right woman.

Do you believe that statement? Take 10 seconds to think through it. What in the world would make a man rich through his wife?

I’ll explain.

How to Keep A Financially Peaceful Household

One huge cause of misunderstandings and fights in relationships is money: how we earn it, how we spend it, how we save it. It is vital that couples learn that neither should be solely responsible for the relationship's finances. As always, teamwork and mutual respect is the key.