Can a Saver & Spender Be Married? | George Kamel

Do you think love is enough to keep a marriage going without a lot of conflict? Or if you're complete opposites around views on money, do you think that is going to cause more pain and friction than the love will keep you together?

You don't need to have two savers in a relationship to make it work. You can have the free spirit spender and you can have the nerd saver who loves to do the budget. You can have a long healthy marriage that way. But if you have someone who's saying I want to hang on to debt, I want to continue to spend more than we make, I don't care yolo. Forget about the future and this other person who has, you know, a real fear about like we're going to be screwed, we're never going to be able to retire. Eventually that's going to cause enough strife in the relationship that either you shut down and brush it all under the rug and there's a lot of resentment or it ends up in divorce.