'We don’t have children, we don’t travel, we don’t see or experience many new things, and we don’t have much of a social circle at all.'
My husband and I got married in 2013 with a combined $193,000 in debt. The debt consisted of credit cards, medical bills, wedding debt and car notes, with student loans being the biggest debt between us.
In the immediate two months following, we saved up a nine-month emergency fund and started saving the money left over from our monthly income after our cost-of-living expenses were paid. In six months we’ve been able to save $35,000, and the current plan is to keep living below our means, working and saving. Working and saving.Because now that we have no debt, I have enough clarity to realize that we don’t have much of a life either.
‘These are differences of views on life and money — differences that might have stopped us from getting married, had we been able to see beyond the debt.’ I want to start investing in small house flips and rental properties even before we purchase a primary home, because I feel like we are in a prime opportunity to grow our money and get good returns.
Your life should get bigger — not smaller — when you are in a relationship. On the one hand, paying off this debt brought you together and gave you a joint goal. It’s probably one of the best things you can do with a partner. On the other, it makes me wonder whether your husband is a man of extremes, whether he has acquired a taste for a frugal lifestyle or whether he was always living for tomorrow.
‘Divorce is like going through a terrible recession.’ In fact, similar credit scores can help predict trustworthiness and are “highly predictive” of whether couples stay together in the long term, according to a 2015 paper by researchers at UCLA, the Brookings Institution and Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. “Credit scores reveal an individual’s relationship skill and level of commitment,” they wrote.
Relationships take work, but they should not be a 24/7 heavy lift. Your life should get bigger — not smaller — when you are in a relationship. Here are three questions to ask if you are contemplating spending the rest of your life with someone: 1. Do we laugh a lot? 2. Do we laugh a lot? 3. Do we laugh a lot?
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