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When couples carry generational money trauma together

My wife and I both came from families where money was a source of shame and control, and now we're trying to build a healthy relationship with finances together but we keep triggering each other's old wounds. Every conversation about spending or saving turns into a fight about things that happened decades before we met.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are attempting to create new patterns while unconsciously recreating the very dynamics they sought to escape.

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