You, Me & Money
Build Financial Wellness With You, Me & Money
You, Me & Money: A Couple’s Quick Start Guide to Creating Financial Rhythm is your practical and compassionate roadmap to building a shared financial future rooted in trust, connection, and rhythm. Perfect for couples at any relationship stage, this guide offers actionable strategies to navigate money conversations confidently and clearly.
What’s Inside:
Financial Communication Made Simple: Learn how to talk about money without arguments or awkward silences.
Discover Your Financial Rhythms: Explore a step-by-step framework to align your spending, saving, and investing with your shared goals.
From Tension to Teamwork: Transform money from a source of conflict into a tool for growth and connection.
Customizable Tools and Templates: Includes exercises, planners, and conversation starters to create a financial system that works for you.
Are you ready to transform financial stress into financial harmony?
This 90-Page Easy-to-Read E-Guide…
Blends expert financial advice with insights into the psychology of relationships. Whether saving for your dream home, paying off debt, or simply trying to get on the same financial page, this guide helps you cultivate a lasting financial rhythm that grows with your relationship.
Why You’ll Love This Book:
- Quick and Easy to Follow: No financial jargon—just real, relatable advice.
- Focused on Connection: Strengthen your relationship while improving your finances.
- Ideal for Busy Couples: Get practical results without overwhelming time commitments.
Start building a life you love together. Your journey to financial rhythm begins here!
Perfect For:
- Singles: This book easily applies to you and your relationship with money!
- Therapists and Financial Professionals: This book is a great introduction to financial therapy. No matter whether you work with individuals or couples, the stories, tips, and exercises are easily transferable to your practice.
- Newlyweds and long-term couples
- Partners navigating financial transitions
- Anyone who wants a stronger, more connected financial future
Chapter 1: Your Money Story
Chapter Overview:
- Your money story is the combination of your history, experiences, and perceptions that shapes the way you view money.
- How you handle money in everyday life and with your partner is influenced by your money story.
- Building awareness around your money story can help you understand your money habits and the root of financial rhythms in your personal life and as a couple.
Chapter 2: Rhythm over Routine
Chapter Overview:
- Your money story directly influences your habits and rhythms with money.
- Rhythms are a better way for us to understand our relationship with money and how to build better financial habits.
- Building better rhythms in life can help us cope with stress and prevent financial stress in the first place.
- We each have unique rhythms based on our unique money stories and tendencies.
Chapter 3: Finding Your Rhythm as a Couple
Chapter Overview:
- As we become more aware of our natural rhythms, we can purposefully use them to create better habits with money and in our relationships.
- Finding a better rhythm as a couple starts with a foundation of good communication.
- Better communication makes room for new habits and rhythms with money.
- Simple habits like a monthly money check-in can make a massive positive impact on our finances and relationships.
Chapter 4: Value-Based Budgeting
Chapter Overview:
- Purposefully budgeting according to your values with your partner greatly reduces feelings of restriction, stress, and lack.
- Identifying shared values as a couple can help create a balanced budget where both sides feel their needs and wants are met.
- Budgeting is about more than just money. It’s about time and your perspective of value too.
- A value-based budget can naturally support better financial rhythms as a couple.
Chapter 5: The Power of Rhythm in Your Relationship
Chapter Overview:
- Building purposeful rhythms and systems in your finances can help you create more sustainable wealth and a better life as a couple.
- Your budget is the key tool to help you spend and save according to your values and reach long-term goals.
- Sticking to your savings goals is much easier when we use strategies like creating positive emotions and support networks.
- Mistakes happen. It’s much more important to focus on adjusting your rhythms in response while leaving room to celebrate small wins along the way.
Chapter 6: Building Your Balance Together
Chapter Overview:
- Pursuing financial independence can bring clarity and balance to your financial rhythm.
- Understanding your “enough” number can help you find a more balanced lifestyle.
- There are two sides of your relationship to financially consider: love and business.
- Balancing both sides of your relationship in your pursuit to financial independence can bring lasting wealth and a deeply fulfilling lifestyle.
“First, this is just what my husband & I needed. We just wed and decided to form a partnership 2 years ago, but after being independent and managing my finances on my own for most of my adult life, brought challenges in my marriage. We are not done with it yet as we’re really making an effort to fully make complete use of this handbook by applying it into our daily lives. What I found most helpful, is that at the end of each chapter, you give the counseling tips on how to converse and handle each topic; this really makes for our conversation to be more effective and worthwhile. Overall, I recommend this to new couples like us, who are learning how to manage joint finances.”
– Anna P.