MONEY MATTERS

A recent poll by Roper Starch Worldwide found that in the United States, money is the most common source of conflict between spouses. And research in the Center for Marital and Family Studies Report shows that coming into their marriages; new couples find money to be more of a problem than in-laws, jealousy, or communication. Four years later, they still find money to be the most troublesome aspect of marriage, ahead of communication, sex, and in-laws (in that order).

That is not much different from a research done here locally by infortrack-Harris for Nation media. In this research, they found out that, in quite an interesting twist in marriage and separation trends, money and overly nosy in-laws have overtaken infidelity as the leading cause of broken marriages. Half of all married people who took part in the survey said money was the main cause of marital conflict, followed by interference from members of the extended family at 39 per cent.

Thus money matters especially in marriage. In the next couple of weeks will be discussing how you as a couple can avoid being a part of these stats.