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How to achieve financial goals with your spouse
– moneysense.ca
Shannon Jarrett and Marcin Duran are the original odd couple when it comes to reconciling their very different approaches to money management. Despite sharing a home and domestic life together (including two kids) in Hamilton, Ont., they’re by and large living separate financial lives. “We don’t share any banks accounts but we share expenses,” says Shannon. Marcin pays the mortgage and makes all insurance and car payments, while Shannon pays for everything else to run the household. But that’s where the agreements end—and the problems begin. Whether the financial issue is big or small, Shannon and Marcin are often at loggerheads. They need to find some common ground and get their goals aligned.
For Shannon, saving is her largest concern and she wants to see them growing more income inside their RRSPs and TFSAs. “I’ve always put away $200 a month but I can’t get Marcin to do the same,” she says. “He feels I’m just trying to control him.” Marcin, though, thinks their main priority should be debt repayment—in particular, the $169,000 mortgage that remains on their home…
For Shannon, saving is her largest concern and she wants to see them growing more income inside their RRSPs and TFSAs. “I’ve always put away $200 a month but I can’t get Marcin to do the same,” she says. “He feels I’m just trying to control him.” Marcin, though, thinks their main priority should be debt repayment—in particular, the $169,000 mortgage that remains on their home…
