If you're like most people,you're struggling with questions like these.Whether we lkie it or not,money makes a big difference in the choices we make and the lives we lead.Unresolved questions about money can putunwanted stress on even the healthiest relationships-between spouses,between parents and chilren,and even between friends.In Love&Money,columnist Jeff Opdyke offers practical personal finance advice,as well as strategies for dealing with touchy financial topics-so that momey doesn's end up costing you something even more valuable.
作者简介:
JEFF D.OPDYKE is a personal finance reporter in the wall Street Journal's New Youk bureau.He is also the author of the "Love & Money"column that runs weekly in the wall Street Jounal Sunday-a Fourpage supplement carried by omor than eighty newspapers across the country.He lives in New Jersey with his wife and son.
Introduction
STAGE ONE The Formative Years:Financial Fundamentals
Chapter 1 Budgets Are Like Diets-Everyone Cheats:Developing a Spending Plan
Chapter 2 Are We What We Owe?Controlling Debt
Chapter 3 Small Change Is Real Money:managing Your Spending
Chapter 4 Emergency Savings:Preparing For the Unexpected Costs of Life
STAGE TWO The Early Years:Building a Life Together
Chapter 5 Speak Now or... Forever You'll Regret It:Gauging Financial Compatibility
Chapter 6 The Perils of His and Hers Accounts:Merging Your Finances
Chapter 7 Money Laundering:Curtiling surreptitious Spending
Chapter 8 Does Money Equal Power in a Marriage?Balancing The Salary Equation
STAGE THREE The Kiddie Years :Big Dollars for Little People
Chapter 9 Having Children:Ealuating the Financial Implications
Chapter 10 "All my Friends Have One!"Managine Kids and Their
Chapter 11 From Allowances to Summer Jobs:Teaching Kids about Earning Dollars
Chapter 12 Speaking in Code:understanding Your Messages aobout Money
STAGE FOUR The Middel Years :Reevaluating Your Life
Chapter 13 One Income or Two?Making a Choice Bourt Lifestyle
Chapter 14 The Trials of Being the Trailing Spouse:following Your Dreams
Chapter 15 You Take Paris...I'll Take Vietnam:When Vacation Desires Diverge
Chapter 16 When Financial Incompatibities Arise:The Art of the Compromise
STAGE FIVE The later years:planning the future
Chapter 17 Retiement,Part I:Obsessing about Your Future
Chapter 18 Retirement,Part II:Making Sure Your Dreams are in Sync
Chapter 19 college Savings 101:Pass of fail
Chapter 20 When parents Need Money:deciding When You Can Say No
Conclusion
Notes
Index