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When Safety Needs Conflict With Life Goals

My partner thinks our emergency fund is big enough but I keep wanting to add more to it instead of saving for the vacation we planned, and it's causing fights.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between security and experience reveals different relationships to uncertainty and different definitions of what makes life worth living.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.