My partner and I make decent money but we've been avoiding talking about what we're actually saving for because I think we want fundamentally different things from our future and neither of us wants to find out we're incompatible about something this big. We keep having surface-level budget conversations while dancing around the fact that my idea of financial security might be her idea of playing it too safe.
More people experience this than they realize.
You're discovering that financial planning requires confronting whether you and your partner actually want the same life.
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