But sometimes, the biggest challenge is not the talking. It’s how to start talking.
Fortunately, there’s a book for that.
Get Financially Naked: How to Talk Money With Your Honey
The book is divided into three main sections: Own Your Finances, Own Your Life, Talking Money With Your Honey, and Time to Get Tactical.
The first section addresses your own finances and how you view money. You need to know your own relationship with money before you can address joint finances with your partner. This is a similar concept to the idea that you can’t really love someone until you love yourself.
The second section offers a compatibility quiz to open up a dialogue with your partner. This section also address the five key lifetime expenses (home, car, kids, retirement, and extended family) and how to tackle them as a couple.
The final section offers advice for taking what you learned about yourselves in the first two sections and using it to reach your financial goals. This section offers guidance for building savings, eliminating debt, and building retirement funds.
There’s also a Q & A section that handles many of the common questions readers may have about making sure they’re on the same financial page as their partner.
The book is written by two women for women, but men will still find a lot of good information here, too.
As someone who has been working on personal finances with my husband for nearly 12 years, I found Get Financially Naked to be a bit basic. But if you’ve never talked about money with your partner, or if you feel like all you and your partner do is fight about money, this book will do an excellent job of getting you both on the same financial page.
Get Financially Naked was easy to read and easy to follow and it’s message clear: If you’re willing to get undressed with your partner, you should also be willing to get financially naked with them too.
There’s some solid advice in this book for talking about every aspect of your finances with your partner and reminders of how important it is to revisit the conversation on a regular basis.
When you’re in love, it is so easy to only think about the physical and emotional attraction and to forget that financially compatibility is a key aspect of a relationship’s success. Get Financially Naked
Disclosure: Adams Media provided me with a complimentary copy of this book to review. I was not compensated in any other way for this review. The opinions reflected in my review are entirely my own, honest thoughts on this book, and were not edited by the book’s author, publisher or distributors. This post contains affiliate links, which help support this blog. Read my full disclosure policy here.
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