Your Money, Your Marriage

The Secrets to Smart Finance, Spicy Romance, and Their Intimate Connection

Cherie Lowe, Brian Lowe

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780310351238
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

God's vision for your marriage is far more than mediocre, and money and sex are two of the most common tension points. But it doesn't have to be this way.

In Your Money, Your Marriage, Brian and Cherie Lowe offer straight talk and power principles for getting your finances back on track so you can get back to your romance. Take it from them—the Lowes worked off $127, 000 in debt in just four years, and emerged not only financially free but better together.

Join Cherie, personal finance blogger at Queen of Free, and Brian, family law attorney who's seen it all when it comes to marital money struggles, in this journey to help you and your spouse go from different books to the same page. Through candid and hilarious stories, fresh ideas and practices, and a few winks along the way, Brian and Cherie reveal the secrets to "financial foreplay" able to help every couple thrive together in finance and romance alike.

You'll learn how to:

• Develop "passionate patience" with each other toward a shared financial goal
  
  

• Identify unhealthy financial habits
  
  

• Save smart on date nights
  
  

• Sort through misaligned expectations as a couple
  
  

• Beat the comparison game
  
  

• Cultivate a stronger relationship on a budget of zero dollars
  
  

Couples share much more than a bank account or even a bedroom—they share a sacred union. Imagine what your marriage could be if you could put cash conflict behind you. Your Money, Your Marriage is an invitation to find out, and to thrive together.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Origin Stories
• Chapter 2: What Is Financial Foreplay? From a House Divided to a Blissful Union
• Chapter 3: What Did You Say? From Different Books to the Same Page
• Chapter 4: Did You Say Divorce? From Growing Apart to Being Planted Together
• Chapter 5: Who Leads Your Life? From Busy to Prioritized
• Chapter 6: Who’s the Boss? From Control to Trust
• Chapter 7: Where’s That At Again? From Scattered to Organized
• Chapter 8: What Are You Missing? From the Fear of Missing Out to the Love of Showing Up
• Chapter 9: Who’s the Center of Your Marriage? From Consumer Connection to Christ-Centered Connection
• Chapter 10: Begin Again: From Old Ways of Thinking to New Beginnings
• Acknowledgments
• Endnotes