Benjamin Felix
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5,692 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Benjamin Felix’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Who you marry is obviously one of the most impactful decisions of your life, both financially and of course otherwise.
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But I think a lot of couples let their finances be an afterthought or their financial compatibility be an afterthought.
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But the reality is that who you decide to marry and how you structure your finances and make decisions together compounds across every major life decision that you make going forward.
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I don't think anybody would disagree with this statement.
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If you mess up the marriage thing, the costs can be pretty devastating, both financially, divorce can be very expensive, but obviously otherwise as well, emotionally and psychologically and all that stuff.
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I'm not a marriage counselor or an expert in marriage.
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You guys are more so than I am with your more years of experience, I guess.
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But there is a ton of research on this topic, which is what we're going to be speaking to.
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We've also got, and again, this is where I'll be interested in your guys' thoughts as we go through this, Dan and Ben.
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We deal with a lot of clients, a lot of Canadian households, and a lot of households are couples.
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They're married.
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And then the other unfortunate thing that we see in our role as financial advisors is people do get divorced.
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We get a pretty good cross-section of couples and finances just through our professional work.
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And the last thing I'll say as a setup for the topic is that the Harvard study of adult development, which is one of the longest running studies of human happiness, a psychiatrist wrote a book based on those data.
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And one of the six factors of a healthy aging, this psychiatrist found was a stable marriage.
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I think it's something that's really worth getting right and doing well.
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And there's a bunch of research on how to do that, which is what we're going to talk about
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Any comments before I keep going?
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Some of the research does speak to that, just the effect that joint finances can have on the relationship that a couple has with money as opposed to if they have separate finances.
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And I think some of that's what you mentioned, Dan, like if one person's financial situation is changing and they have separate finances, that can become pretty difficult for a couple to manage together.
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