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The 7 Financial Blind Spots Couples Worth Noticing guide highlights common patterns, pressure points, and missed opportunities that often create stress around money—even in otherwise strong relationships.
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The Cost of Carrying Everything in Your Head
Most financial tasks aren't particularly difficult. They're just unfinished. A beneficiary update, an insurance question, a reimbursement, a phone call. Small tasks have a way of lingering in our minds, creating mental clutter and hidden stress long before they ever become actual financial problems.
The Blind Spot Isn’t the Expense
A septic invoice and a $4,200 repair reminded me of something I see with couples all the time: the expense itself is often not the real source of stress. Sometimes we mistake a normal season of life for a financial problem.
Financial Blind Spots Worth Noticing
Over the years, I started noticing certain hidden stress points that repeatedly show up for couples around money. I finally gathered them together into a new reflection guide: 7 Financial Blind Spots Worth Noticing.
What Happens When You Finally Look at the Numbers
Looking at your numbers can bring up more than expected—tension, defensiveness, and quick reactions. This post explores why that happens and how to approach your money in a way that supports both you and your relationship.
AI Told Them They Didn’t Need a Coach
A client told their coach that AI said they didn’t need help. The real issue wasn’t the numbers. It was the conversation that AI can’t see.
The Shift Couples Miss With Money
When money conversations keep going in circles despite good intentions, effort usually isn’t the problem. This piece explores the entrenched patterns couples get stuck in, why trying harder doesn’t work, and how the right third party can create safety, accountability, and real momentum.
The Advice I Had to Rethink
Why working only on the numbers, or only on communication, often isn’t enough for couples to make real financial progress, and what works better instead.
Back to Routine, Still Stuck With Money
January routines are back, but money conversations often fall into the same familiar patterns. This piece explores why that happens, even with good intentions, and how recognizing those patterns can be the first step toward calmer, more connected money talks.
A New Way to Work With Your Money, Personally and Together
January is the right time to move from awareness into informed action with your money. This post introduces a new way to work with your finances by starting with assessment, not motivation, programs, or pressure.
Seeing Your Partner Again
As life gets busy, appreciation in relationships can quietly fade. This reflection explores how cherishing and rebuilding admiration can help couples reconnect, restore belief in each other, and strengthen their partnership as the new year begins.
The “Timeline of Us” Exercise for 2025
A simple year-end reflection for couples to look back on 2025 together, including how money showed up along the way. No fixing, just noticing what mattered.