Financial Goal Setting With Your Spouse

Money and Career

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Patty Moore of Working Mother Life. For many couples, money is a major source of tension within a relationship. In fact, in a 2017 survey, 49 percent of all respondents considered money to be the most critical and...

How to Stop Fighting About Money in Your Marriage

Money and Career

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Alex Craig of Have a Rich Marriage. Let’s be honest, money causes conflict in all of our marriages. It causes conflict because nobody has taught us how to handle or respond to money, especially not in our marriages....

Is Your Business Ruining Your Relationships?

Goals and Dreams, Money and Career, Relationship Design

Let’s say you escaped the corporate world and the 9 to 5 grind that goes with it and you’ve charted your own course for life. You’re free. You have your own little business. The world is now your oyster (how exactly did this phrase get started, and...

How much money makes you happy?

Money and Career, Simplicity

Do you earn enough money to be happy? According to a study from Gallup, earning $75,000 a year is a magic income level in America. As salaries increased for the 450,000 people surveyed, the day-to-day level of happiness rose as well – until it reached a plateau at...

Why You Should Treat Every Relationship Like Your Marriage

Money and Career, Relationship Design

Many of you regularly read Simple Marriage because of the great information and ideas about creating better marriages, for which I’m very grateful. But what if these ideas were applied to even more relationships in your life? Even your business relationships?...

3 Ways to Simplify Money When She Makes More

Money and Career

This is a guest post from Farnoosh Torabi. If you earn more than your husband, you’re more likely to be the primary decision-maker on money matters and take charge of things like paying bills, budgeting, saving, and planning for retirement. That’s all according to...