I tried too, but finally gave up. We just couldn't see eye-to-eye on it, and I am not willing to try again. My new girlfriend comes from an entirely different

I tried too, but finally gave up. We just couldn't see eye-to-eye on it, and I am not willing to try again. My new girlfriend comes from an entirely different culture geographically, but has extremely similar money-management practices as me, even though she didn't grow up in the same country (though it was also a rich first-world nation). There's challenges with her too, but finances aren't one of them.