Money is the most difficult subject to discuss between two people in love. Why? Several reasons:
It’s personal. We’re taught as children to never ask how much people earn, what things cost or how much money people have. It’s rude; it’s poor manners; and it is just not done.
We spend the first two decades of our lives keeping anything related to money hush-hush. We learn to skirt the truth in the interest of personal decorum.
We grow up, enter a relationship and find that it’s not easy to suddenly talk about such personal information.
It’s not flattering. We wear clothes that flatter our good points and downplay our flaws. We snap a “selfie,” and then retake as many times as necessary to get it just right….