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When couples realize their financial goals are undermining their relationship

My spouse and I both work demanding jobs to afford the house and lifestyle we wanted but now we barely see each other and when we do we're too tired to enjoy what we're paying for and neither of us wants to be the one to suggest scaling back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pursuit of desired outcomes can consume the very relationships those outcomes were meant to serve.

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