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This seems like rather bleak advice but it is a very good point. It can create so much tension if you're not 100% on the same page financially. Also, if you pl
by J-dawg 9y ago
This seems like rather bleak advice but it is a very good point. It can create so much tension if you're not 100% on the same page financially.
Also, if you plan to have kids and are likely to be both the higher earner and not the primary child carer, the potential downsides of marriage are enormous.
- logfromblammo 9y agoMy spouse seems entirely incapable of keeping savings, so the rational financial advice I would give myself is to get divorced, so that I can lose only up to 50% of what I earn, rather than 100% of it. It doesn't help that I don't seem to be getting anything else out of the deal any more. It would have been a whole lot easier to just not get married in the first place. If you can't stand being single, at the very least, make the other person's debt situation a deal-breaker before getting too involved with them.