Recalibrate Your Relationship With Money — And Your Partner

Money for Couples by Ramit Sethi

"Money For Couples" gives partners practical strategies for recalibrating their relationship with money — and each other — so that they can shift from defense to offense. 

Through his Netflix show, bestselling book, and popular podcast, Ramit Sethi has taught a generation how to earn more, save more, and design their Rich Lives. Now, in his soon-to-be-released new book, he tackles the hottest money issue of all: money in relationships.

Sethi’s Money for Couples: No More Stress. No More Fights. Just a 10-Step Plan To Create Your Rich Life Together (Workman) gives readers a clear path toward aligning about money, including how to stop fighting, start building a financial vision together, and even how to spend money extravagantly on the things you love.

Sethi’s advice works even if you see money differently than your partner, even if you’re in debt, and even if one partner avoids money altogether.

With starter scripts to jumpstart conversations, specific numbers to benchmark your spending against, and instructions for merging your accounts to make your finances automatically flow, couples of all financial backgrounds can define their vision for a Rich Life and establish a plan to achieve it.

Writing in a conversational tone, Sethi arms couples with prompts and exercises that help them:

• Understand the four Money Types, giving you a deeper understanding of why you — and your partner — behave the way you do with your finances.
• Have their first positive money conversation, as well as a regular monthly financial check-in.
• Learn how to understand your “invisible scripts,” the invisible beliefs about money you inherited from your family.
• Develop a Conscious Spending Plan (CSP), which eliminates the need for difficult budgeting and lets you focus on four key numbers.
• Pay Off Debt in Three Steps: You can live a Rich Life even with debt. Readers will learn how to set up a debt-payoff plan, automate it, and still enjoy life right now.
• Identify individual Money Dials, the items you love to spend money on and those that you’re willing to spend less on. This allows for spending extravagantly on the things that we love and cutting back mercilessly on the things we don’t.
• Teach your children how to have a healthy relationship with money.

Packed with relatable real-world stories — drawn from thousands of hours of conversations with couples, his social media followers, and his own marriage — the book explores common dynamics, answers many of the universal questions that keep us awake at night and shares helpful money-planning templates.

Money For Couples gives partners practical strategies for recalibrating their relationship with money — and each other — so that they can shift from defense to offense. 

Says marketing guru Seth Godin, “If you’re bold enough to do the right thing, Ramit will show you how. Highly recommended.”