Ramit Sethi warns that a partner refusing to discuss money is a significant relationship red flag. He argues financially successful couples discuss money regularly rather than only reacting to problems, and that avoiding money talk links money to negative emotions; openness (even about debt) matters more than financial perfection.
It is a huge red flag if your partner will not talk about money with you. Here's why. Financially successful couples talk about money regularly, not just when things go wrong. And often we are programmed to think that money is a taboo topic until somebody overspends or something bad happens. For most of us, money has become something that's reactive. We only talk about it when there's a problem. Why'd you spend that much? How are we going to pay our bills this month? And as you start to develop that connection, you start to connect bad feelings with money. But I like to connect good feelings also. I don't mind if someone has debt, for example, but they've got to be willing to talk about it with their partner.
