The Home and Away Series

This Month's Guest: Ms. Nancy W. Hudson

Extension Agent - Family and Consumer Sciences, Medina County

Agreeing about money challenges many families. It takes time, effort, and effective communication to get on the same money track. When circumstances include a job that keeps you apart for days or weeks, your money-talking skills and individual efforts need to provide the payoff.

If your money discussions escalate to shouting matches or come to abrupt halts, it's time for a different approach. Realize you will have different attitudes and values. To one, money may mean power. To the other it may mean security or status. One may be a spender, the other a saver. The concern is not that you always agree about money, but how you discuss your differences and reach a suitable compromise.

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