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Love and Money: The Hidden Contracts That Make or Break Relationships

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Discover why money conflicts predict divorce more accurately than any other issue, and how the 5-to-1 ratio of positive interactions can save your relationship. Drawing from John Gottman's groundbreaking research, Ramit Sethi's financial wisdom, and Esther Perel's insights on desire, learn to design relationship contracts that last.

Love and Money: The Hidden Contracts That Make or Break Relationships
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Fair Play
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52924540-fair-play
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/248395/the-seven-principles-for-making-marriage-work-by-john-gottman-phd-and-nan-silver/
Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending
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https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Happy-Money/Michael-Norton/9781451665079
Examining the Relationship Between Financial Issues and Divorce
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00715.x
Predicting marital stability and divorce in newlywed couples
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10740681/
Understand & Apply the Psychology of Money to Gain Greater Happiness
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/morgan-housel-understand-apply-the-psychology-of-money-to-gain-greater-happiness
A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter
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https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/7d2a495a-0223-42b2-b319-00df2981d85a
The secret to desire in a long-term relationship
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https://www.ted.com/talks/esther_perel_the_secret_to_desire_in_a_long_term_relationship
Rethinking infidelity … a talk for anyone who has ever loved
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https://www.ted.com/talks/esther_perel_rethinking_infidelity_a_talk_for_anyone_who_has_ever_loved
Pooling finances and relationship satisfaction
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35286120/
Eight Dates
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/eight-dates-by-john-gottman
#707 - Morgan Housel - 9 Timeless Lessons About Human Psychology
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-modern-wisdom-30936734/episode/707-morgan-housel-9-128344627/
The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318510/the-all-or-nothing-marriage-by-eli-j-finkel/
The Psychology of Money
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-psychology-of-money-by-morgan-housel
Marriage, a History
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/marriage-a-history-by-stephanie-coontz
Attached
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/attached-by-amir-levine
Subjective Knowledge Differences within Couples Predict Influence over Shared Financial Decisions
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/726430
The Love Prescription
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-love-prescription-by-john-gottman
The Science of Love, Desire and Attachment
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/the-science-of-love-desire-and-attachment
Common Cents: Bank Account Structure and Couples’ Relationship Dynamics
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https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/jconrs/v50y2023i4p704-721..html
Ramit Sethi — Automating Finances, Negotiating Prenups, Disagreeing with Tim, and More
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https://tim.blog/2019/05/07/ramit-sethi/
Podcast: Do joint accounts improve couples’ relationships?
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https://bankingjournal.aba.com/2023/11/podcast-do-joint-accounts-improve-couples-relationships/
America embraces prenups: 50% of adults open to signing
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https://www.axios.com/2023/09/24/prenup-rates-us-marriage
Couples That Work
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https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43533059
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How do financial conflicts impact relationships, and what makes them last?

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