My partner handles our household finances and keeps insisting we're fine even as I watch our grocery bills double and our savings disappear, but when I try to suggest we need to change our spending they get defensive about their management. We're both stressed about money but we can't seem to talk about it without someone feeling attacked.
More people experience this than they realize.
Financial stress is creating communication breakdowns that prevent couples from adapting together to changed economic realities.
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