Benjamin Felix
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5,692 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Benjamin Felix’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But if you're coming in more equally, it's a tougher conversation.
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Yeah, and it's tough to predict
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I think that's where it's interesting is that with this document in place, you can deliberately design your financial arrangements to reflect what makes sense for you.
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If you're getting married, there is a default based on the law where you live.
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And so you got to know kind of baseline, what does that mean?
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And then if that arrangement does not make sense for you, you can draft your own version of it.
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And you can get creative, Ben, like you mentioned, we've seen some people get
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Pretty creative in terms of how they want to divide assets in a hypothetical separation over time and triggered by different life events.
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You can do all kinds of stuff if you're doing it yourself.
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But I think it does have to start with an honest conversation about property and savings and income, future income, and what each person would need to be financially secure if the relationship were to end.
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Taking a very cold and rational approach to something that is not a very cold and rational thing, which is I think why it's hard.
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All right, next one I have is how much should you spend on an engagement ring, wedding, and honeymoon?
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Kind of following the arc of a marriage, choosing a partner, prenup, and wedding.
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There's a common perception that cheaping out on an engagement ring signals a lack of commitment or care from the proposing member of a couple.
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Whereas prenups act as a negative signal, a bigger ring often acts as a positive signal and an expression of love and affection.
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There are many drivers of this signaling.
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Most notably, I remember learning about this when I was doing my MBA as just like such a crazy marketing case, advertising from jewelry companies or diamond companies in this case, like De Beers, who first pushed the two months
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salary spending standard on an engagement ring.
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Ads like that link the price of the ring to the permanence of the marriage.
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I remember seeing ads, a diamond is forever.
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