MAJOR MISTAKES OF COUPLES ABOUT MONEY – Part 2

MAJOR MISTAKES OF COUPLES ABOUT MONEY

MONEY AND MARRIAGE MASTER CLASS: LESSON 19

MAJOR MISTAKES OF COUPLES ABOUT MONEY

MAJOR MISTAKES OF COUPLES ABOUT MONEY – Part 2

 Bisi Adewale

1. No Budgets. Many couples don’t budget because they think budget is just for nations, states or companies. Government and companies succeed because they make a budget and live by it. Likewise, if any couple must excel, you must make a monthly, weekly and yearly budget and stick to it. Budget helps to curb excess spending and wastage. It speeds up the realization of goals and visions. A simple budget of today will deliver you from major financial problems tomorrow.
2. Olympic Spirit. This is the attitude of competition between the husband and wife. Couples are not supposed to compete against each other; they are to complement each other. Olympic spirit is what drives a wife to buy a better car when the husband the busy one. When one of them buys a land, the other party will also seek to buy his or her own even if it means borrowing or stealing to do it. In the long run, they will not achieve what they ought to have achieved if they had put their resources together. Stop competing with your spouse; after all, you are one.
3. Bringing third parties into their finances. It is an error to bring third parties into your finances as a couple. Sit down together as a couple to plan and decide how you will spend your money. Don’t permit any third party to dictate to you because most times, third parties will give you wrong financial counsel which may affect your vision.
4. Secret commitment. This is a sign that you have failed to unite your spouse with your family. It is also a pointer to division and lack of openness among couples. Secret commitment cannot be covered forever. Anytime your spouse finds out, it will bring a rebound into your relationship. Be open to each other and jointly render financial assistance to whosoever you want to assist.
5. No money, no sex. Whenever a woman attaches monetary reward to her sexual role in marriage, she has ceased to be a wife but a prostitute. As a wife, offering your body to your husband for sex is your conjugal responsibility, no condition should be attached to it. If you keep denying your husband sex because of his financial predicament, you will end up pushing him outside to sleep with other women or single ladies. Money or lack of it, let sex go on between you and your spouse.
6. Rainfall spending. Rainfall spending is spending indiscriminately with careless attitude and fun fare when there is business boom. It is a very big mistake any couple can make.
7. Telling God to do what God has asked them to do. God will never do what He expects you to do. For instance, if you are just praying for God to bless you without doing anything, you are just wasting your time. God is not a magician, He will only bless the work of your hands not your idleness. In fact, God hates idleness. No matter how little it may be, get engaged in doing something. If you are waiting for when God will rain down money from heaven for you, it is a dream. Please, wake up, do something with your hands
8. Trying to do what only God can do for them. Work belongs to man while blessings belong to God. All your efforts in seeking blessing without acknowledging God as the true source of wealth is like embarking on a wild elephant project. Stop doing what only God can do. If you want God to bring His blessings upon what you are doing, commit God through righteous living by paying your tithes accurately and by committing all your work to God in prayers regularly.
9. No financial intelligence. Running a successful marriage and future needs financial intelligence. Lack of financial intelligence is the reason many people spend their money anyhow. It also accounts for not having perfect understanding of the difference between needs and wants. You should be able to give proper account of any money that passes through your hands. If you are not financially intelligent now, your financial foolishness will prepare you for abject poverty.

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