For Love or Money

Whether you and your partner hail from different economic backgrounds or just hold opposing attitudes toward money, there's probably at least one financial question that creates friction in your relationship. Among the most common: Is your salary just yours, orours? Should you take turns being breadwinner? And, one of the most difficult: Is the debt you've racked up before you met now a joint problem to tackle?

When Money Talks

Getting honest about your financial fears and fantasies.

Till Debt Do Us Part

Why keeping your debt a secret is more harmful than cheating.

Love on a Shoestring

10 tips for when the money gets tight.

Should You Sign a Prenup?

Making a deal can sow the seeds of divorce or provide a crash course in conflict resolution.

Budgeting—As Important as Sex

How debt can undermine a marriage.

Men, Women, and Money

Face it or not, money is always a partner in relationships.

If You Play Hard To Get, Are You a Winner?
Are refusal and denial really potent aphrodisiacs?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/love-or-money/if-you-play-hard-get-are-you-winner

Cooperation for Love or Money: Sailors Versus Baboons
Won't you scratch my back, dear? Or don't you trust me?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/love-or-money/cooperation-love-or-money-sailors-versus-baboons

What Your Therapist Will Never Tell You About Money
Money remains a taboo subject for patients and therapists alike
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/love-or-money/what-your-therapist-will-never-tell-you-about-money

Grow to be a child
What does it take to become childlike again?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/love-or-money/grow-be-child

For GOP Candidates, Only the Few, the Married,

the Monogamous Are Real Americans
GOP candidates only want married Americans to have rights.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/love-or-money/gop-candidates-only-the-few-the-married-the-monogamous-are-real-ame

Money Problems Have Nothing to Do with Marital Problems,

and Other Bad Advice from the Past
Guess who was most skeptical of bad advice about marriage
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/love-or-money/money-problems-have-nothing-do-marital-problems-and-other-bad-advic

Teach your Kids Money Lessons--Don't give them Money Messages
Money messages invoke shame--money lessons are empowering
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/love-or-money/teach-your-kids-money-lessons-dont-give-them-money-messages

The Well-To-Do Woman
Wealthy women are in no hurry to marry.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/love-and-money-how-handle-finances-in-relationship/love-or-money