Does love really conquer all?

Not when it comes to money matters, it doesn’t.

As Get Financially Naked states in its opening pages, when it comes to relationships, financial compatibility is as important as emotional and physical compatibility.  In fact, it is one of the greatest predictors of whether your relationship will survive long term.

To drive home the point, the book cites a Money Magazine survey that found that money causes tension in 85 percent of all marriages.  This is especially true when one spouse tends to be a spender while the other is a saver.

And so, in their noble quest to lower the national divorce and bankruptcy rates, co-authors Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar put together this guidebook that aims to reduce that tension by teaching you and your significant other how to communicate about money by “getting financially naked,” which the authors use as a catch phrase for getting in

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