64
Percentage of married Denver residents in the Country Financial Index survey last month who said they completely trusted their spouse’s money-management skills
56
Percentage who said they don’t feel the need to ask spousal permission to make purchases outside of usual expenses
8
Percentage who said they manage their finances completely separately
Husbands and wives reported that conflicts about money surpassed non-financial conflicts in length, recurrence, current importance, long-term importance and resolution through agreeing to discuss it later in
A suggest that people who don’t trust their partners are more likely to reinterpret past transgressions with “self-protective memory biases” — that is, they’ll remember them more negatively.
Snap judgment: As with retirement savings, the earliest investments you can make in spousal trust when it comes to finances — through open communication, honesty and clear boundaries and goals — have great and compounding impacts.
