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First Comes Love, Then Comes Money: Easy Steps to Resolving the #1 Conflict in Marriage

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Roger has done an excellent job of combining biblical principles with practical application that readers will appreciate. The book provides key insights into how your personality influences your attitudes and actions with money, and offers practical tips for getting out of debt, investing, and simply living on a budget. Best of all, Roger humbly shares illustrations and applications from his own life that will keep the reader locked on his material. Excellent -- you won't be disappointed!

I have read my share of financial planning and management books and found this book to be lacking in "advanced" advice for couples who can pay their bills and avoid running up credit card debt. The first few chapters are nice because they do discuss the different types of personalities and their strengths and weaknesses. However, I couldn't help thinking that most of the book was just the same message repeated over and over: "God wants you to both take responsibility for your finances, and that includes communicating about them regularly (and making a budget)." I guess if you really can't get your spouse to agree on some basic ground rules (like if there are still checks in the checkbook, that doesn't mean you still have money), then this would be a good reality check. But I was disappointed in the limited "couple" advice and would suggest a straight financial planning-type book to read together and discuss.

A very good book for those who would like to focus on the conflicts coming from the different "money" personalities in a couple. It clearly explains the different personalities and how they tend to mannage money, focusing on solutions to the conflicts around this matter.
A good book to undestand ourselves and our spouses as well around managing money. It insists that the secret for a good marriage lies also behind understanding how we think about and how we deal with money and how our spouse does. It gives a lot of material to think about, discuss and the way to solutions.