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When couples disagree about what financial security actually means

My wife and I have been fighting about whether to pay off our mortgage early or invest that money, but what we're really fighting about is whether money should buy us security or freedom and we can't admit that we each think the other one's relationship with money is fundamentally wrong. Every financial conversation becomes a referendum on our deepest values.

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Two people must discover whether their different relationships with money reflect incompatible philosophies of what makes life meaningful.

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