Money and Marriage: Making It Work Together--A Guide to Smart Money Management and Harmonious Communications [Paperback]

Steven Pybrum (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1996

Half about Relationships half about financial planning. You will learn to communicate, negotiate, set up systems to resolve frustration and conflict leading the married couple to make attainable financial goals leading to a strong financial future.

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From the Publisher

Best selling, ground-breaking book: half about relationship building skills, half financial planner. This book continues to receive major national media attention and has been featured on CNN Morning News, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNBC and in the Washington Times. The author, a nationally recognized financial planner, along with 40 psychologists, teaches couples how they can stop fighting and start loving so they can build a sound financial future together. This unique book combines marriage counseling with smart money management skills. A must for every couple dealing with money in their household.

About the Author

Steven Pybrum CPA, MBA, PFP and 40 psychologists developed the Money and Marriage books. Pybrum has recently received the Congressional Medal of Distinction for this book and the straight forward plain english explaination of this most complex subject matter. Pybrum is a financial planner and a marriage counselor in private practice in Santa Barbara, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 246 pages
• Publisher: Abundance Pub Co; Trade edition (September 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965127729
• ISBN-13: 978-0965127721
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,291,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for beginners, maybe, February 24, 2007

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Linda Raven Moore "ravensroads.com & markeron... (Silicon Valley, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Money and Marriage: Making It Work Together--A Guide to Smart Money Management and Harmonious Communications (Paperback)

There is helpful information in this book, but I still didn't like it.

It's targeted at people about to marry, including the very important principle of figuring out whether you're as matched financially as you are in other ways. Since money is one of the hugest sources of arguments in marriage, knowing what attitudes you're marrying is crucial.

Unfortunately, it seems to be targeted also at very young couples, and the patronising, overly simplistic tone does not leave much room for argument. I don't like books where the author tells me "you should" this and "you should" that. It smacks too much of arrogance; there are just too many shades of gray. There's plenty of this tone in this book, and I found it off-putting. I also note the amount of psychobabble and the number of sweeping generalizations about men and women found in its pages. I don't know how much research this author did, but I know one thing: he's a CPA, not a therapist. It shows.

So saying, the actual *financial* information is useful. Just about everything is at least touched on, though being somewhat out of date now there's no mention of anything online. He looks at trusts, ways to teach children about money, wills, retirement funds, investments...a very wide range. Especially to a couple coming to marriage starry-eyed and naive, this book contains things to discuss and think about.

I might well have benefited from something like this when I married. I just feel that the psychobabble is too rigid, too one-size-fits-all, and doesn't really add much of anything to the mix. I would encourage a reader not to make this their only book about money and/or relating inside a marriage.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an extremely important and useful book/tool for life, November 13, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Money and Marriage: Making It Work Together--A Guide to Smart Money Management and Harmonious Communications (Paperback)

"Money and Marriage - Making it work together" was an easily accessible book that guides people through the obstacles that finances bring to a relationship. The book councils and directs the reader down a well lit path of information and understanding. Mr. Pybrum, the author, does not promise to get you rich quick or make you skinny in a week but he does try, and I believe he accomplishes his task, to point out problems both fiscal and emotional that a bankruptcy and divorce laden culture such as ours needs to be aware of. What's more he show methods and mantras by which a couple can guide themselves to a more harmonius love life and monetary future. I recommend the book whole heartedly to all young couples or as a great gift for a couple, especially a honeymoon gift!.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No help, May 18, 1998

By 

Perry ([e-mail]) (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Money and Marriage: Making It Work Together--A Guide to Smart Money Management and Harmonious Communications (Paperback)

If you are planning to get married, this book would be wise reading to open your eyes to potential problems with your future spouse. If you're already married, it is very hard to move above the preachy, condescending attitudes of the author in order to find the bits of wisdom to help your marriage financially. It is too late to choose one's mate carefully (lest we jeopardize our potential net worth) unless we divorce and start all over again with someone else (not an option for me).