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When couples have different cultural approaches to money and family obligations

My partner comes from a Lakota family where wealth is meant to circulate through giveaways and community support, while I was raised with Western savings and investment mindsets, and we can't agree on how much of our income should go to his extended family versus our retirement accounts.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two worldviews about wealth's purpose are colliding in intimate partnership, requiring navigation between individual security and collective responsibility.

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“Where Are You with Indigenous approaches to wealth and sharing?”

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