Make sure you cover all areas of your life: your job, your health, raising your children, your finances, your relationship, your body weight, etc. Couples frequently argued about how much money they were allowed to spend on what.Ĭonduct an experiment for yourself and keep a record of everything you worry about for one month. Economic issues proved to be more controversial than any other topics. He asked 40 couples to keep a diary for a year. Most couples felt that arguments about money constituted a threat to their shared future and found them harder to resolve than any other arguments.Įrich Kirchler, a business psychologist at the University of Vienna, wanted to know what couples talk about and what they argue about. The results showed that couples argued more intensely about money than any other subject. Partners were asked to separately record the cause and duration of their arguments each day. Lauren Papp from the University of Wisconsin asked 100 couples with children to keep a diary for two weeks. So what is it that causes unhappiness-money or rather the lack of it? Money is a major bone of contention in virtually every divorce and researchers have found that it is also at the core of many arguments in relationships. It’s better to be rich.” And the writer Oscar Wilde, who loved to exaggerate in order to provoke outrage and reveal simple truths, claimed: “When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.” The American poet Gertrude Stein said: “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor.
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