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| 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 |
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