Financially Ever After: The Couples' Guide to Managing Money [平装] 0061358185

Your Guide to Managing the Real Dollars—and the Real Emotions—of Your Relationship

Too often with money, couples face two choices: fight and risk making the situation worse, or keep quiet and risk making the situation worse. Financially Ever After offers a third option: family financial fluency—the insight, knowledge, and vocabulary every couple needs to communicate effectively about money.

Jeff D. Opdyke, previously The Wall Street Journal's syndicated "Love & Money" columnist, covers any and all financial issues that couples face, including budgeting, deciding on whether to have joint or individual accounts, dividing up family financial chores, confronting debt, making major purchases, as well as handling mortgages, employment, children, and even engagement rings. He offers dozens of real-life scenarios between couples, with scripts and suggestions for how to broach delicate money-related subjects with your significant other, whether he or she has a shaky credit history or is feeling left out of family financial decision-making.

The book also provides helpful tools to organize your financial life, such as a budgeting chart, a "scorecard" to track spending, and an "affordability calculator" to help you figure out how much buying a house will cost you.

A must-read for any couple starting out, Financially Ever After lays the groundwork for building a healthy and thriving financial life together.

Opdyke, Wall Street Journal columnist, offers a sensitive and sensible manual for peaceably handling marital finances. Many newlyweds have difficulty handling the transition from being an independent agent, who can overspend like mad or pinch every penny till it screams, to a partner working to manage joint financesthe communication issues that crop up are myriad. When inevitable issues of power, independence, self-esteem, security and control come into play, the resulting arguments or silent avoidance can lead to terrible financial mistakes. Opdyke gives clear advice on managing both the real dollars and the real emotions of personal finance that course through every relationship, including scripts for questions partners should ask about each other's financial history, and gives cogent, easy-to-follow plans for the division of financial duties, budgets, prenuptial agreements and home-buying, particularly in light of the credit crunch. With its compassionate and pragmatic tone, this book is invaluable for newlyweds with stars still in their eyesand longtime couples struggling to balance the emotional with the financial and ensure a healthy, thriving life together. (Apr.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Too often with money, couples either fight or keep quiet, which can make the situation worse in either case. "Financially Ever After" offers a third option: family financial fluency--the insight, knowledge, and vocabulary every couple needs to communicate effectively about money. Opdyke offers dozens of real-life scenarios between couples, with scripts and suggestions for how to broach delicate money-related subjects.

Jeff. D. Opdyke has written about personal finance, family finance, and the investment markets for The Wall Street Journal since 1993, and for six years he wrote the Journal's nationally syndicated "Love & Money" column. He is also the author of five previous books, including Financially Ever After. Jeff lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife, Amy, and their two children.

出版社	Harper Paperbacks
作者	Jeff D. Opdyke