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When couples can't agree on how to use lottery winnings

My husband and I won $50,000 on a scratch ticket six months ago and we still haven't touched the money because we both have completely different ideas about what it means and what we should do with it and we're starting to resent each other's perspective.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Money that arrives unexpectedly forces couples to confront their deepest assumptions about security, pleasure, and what they owe to their future selves.

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