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When couples fight about money but it's really about deeper values

My wife and I keep having the same fight about money but we both know it's not really about money — it's about what safety means and what risks are worth taking and we've never actually said that out loud. We just keep arguing about the budget spreadsheet instead of talking about the fact that we fundamentally see the world differently.

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You're using surface disagreements to avoid confronting fundamental differences in how you each make sense of security and risk.

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