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When partners have fundamentally different relationships with spending impulses

My partner saves automatically and never thinks about it while I have to actively resist spending every single day and they don't understand why I get resentful when they act like saving is just a matter of setting up the right systems when for me it's a constant mental battle.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are discovering that their different neurological relationships with gratification create invisible inequities in their shared financial discipline.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Saving and the psychology of deferred gratification?”

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