This post comes from Margaret Garcia-Couoh at partner blog Wise Bread.
Twelve years ago, a priest who did marriage counseling told me what he saw as the personal truth to marriages that stay together and marriages that break apart. "It's about a little thing," he said, "a little thing called money." No way, I thought. Wouldn't the big things be infidelity, children, catastrophes?
Nope. Divorce, he informed me, starts in the checkbook.
Fast forward two marriages and a mortgage later, and darn it if Father Peter wasn't right.
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