Love and money: how to avoid differing attitudes towards finance causing disasters in your love life
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For women in particular, it’s a tricky subject to navigate, but it doesn’t have to be a deal-breaker.
By Alys Key
I was working on a story recently about people who follow the FIRE lifestyle – an extreme method of saving and investing aimed at making early retirement possible – when one of my interviewees mentioned her love life.
“This whole movement kind of limits your dating” said Laura Poole, 27. “If I meet someone and find out they tend to go into debt over Christmas, that’s a deal-breaker.”
While not everyone is committed to such an intense money regime, the idea of mismatched attitudes to money scuppering relationships is an interesting one.
I turned to Hayley Quinn, dating expert at match.com, for help looking closer at this topic. “Tensions can arise over money right from the first day, or might only become apparent when things get serious,” she says.
First dates are littered with potential moments which expose different approaches to money, from talking about holidays to di...
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