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When couples' lottery fantasies reveal deeper relationship tensions

My husband and I have been playing the same lottery numbers for fifteen years and we've never won more than $50 but we both have this fantasy about what we'd do with millions and lately those conversations are feeling more like arguments about who we really are.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared fantasies about windfall money become a laboratory for testing whether people's visions of their ideal life are actually compatible.

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“Where Are You with The psychology of lottery and windfall?”

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