Recalibrate your relationship with money – and your partner

Money for Couples by Ramit Sethi

Money For Couples offers partners practical strategies for reframing their relationships with money—and each other—so they can move from defense to offense.

Through his Netflix show, best-selling book, and popular podcast, Ramit Sethi has taught a generation how to earn more, save more, and live their rich lives. Now, in his upcoming new book, he tackles the hottest money topic of all: money in relationships.

Sethis Money for couples: No more stress. No more fights. Just a 10-step plan to create your rich life together (Workman) gives readers a clear path to agreement about money, including how to stop arguing, develop a financial vision together, and even how to spend money lavishly on the things you love.

Sethi’s advice works even if you view money differently than your partner, even if you’re in debt, and even if a partner avoids money altogether.

With starter scripts to jump-start conversations, specific numbers to help you compare your spending, and instructions for merging your accounts so your finances flow automatically, couples of all financial backgrounds can define their vision for a rich life and a plan to make it a reality Set up goals.

Sethi writes in a conversational tone and gives couples suggestions and exercises to help them:

• Understand the four types of money and gain a deeper understanding of why you – and your partner – behave the way you do with your finances.
• Have your first positive conversation about money and do a regular monthly financial check-in.
• Learn how to understand your “invisible scripts,” the invisible beliefs about the money you inherited from your family.
• Develop a Conscious Spending Plan (CSP) that eliminates difficult budgeting and allows you to focus on four key numbers.
• Pay off debt in three steps: You can live a rich life even with debt. Readers will learn how to create a debt payoff plan, automate it, and still enjoy life at the moment.
• Identify individual money Watch faces, the items you’re happy to spend money on and the ones you’re willing to spend less on. This makes it possible to spend excessively on the things we love and save mercilessly on the things we don’t love.
• Teach your children how to have a healthy approach to money.

Packed with relatable, real-world stories—culled from thousands of hours of conversations with couples, his social media followers, and his own marriage—the book explores shared dynamics, answers many of the universal questions that keep us up at night, and shares helpful insights Money with planning templates.

Money for couples gives partners practical strategies for reframing their relationships with money—and each other—so they can move from defense to offense.

Marketing guru Seth Godin says: “If you are brave enough to do the right thing, Ramit will show you how. Highly recommended.”