Benjamin Felix
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5,821 appearances
21 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Benjamin Felix’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I agree with all that.
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It's all about communication.
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If my wife or I want to spend money on something substantial, we will just have a conversation about it rather than having a budget for stuff that we don't have to ask each other questions about.
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It does start to lead into another topic that I want to talk about, which is financial infidelity, where I think talking about what works for a couple, if you do something that doesn't work, but you kind of agree to it, but one person doesn't really agree to it, but they say they do, then you end up with financial infidelity, which is not great.
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The definition of it is engaging in financial behavior you expect your partner would disapprove of and then hiding it.
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It's actually pretty common in marriage.
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There is a recent paper that looks at what happens when one partner is much more prone to it than the other.
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And couples with that kind of mismatch are more likely to end up with individualized rather than shared financial goals.
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And this also predicts lower financial well-being and lower relationship satisfaction.
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And interestingly, this finding holds up even after accounting for other mismatches between partners, like one being a tightwad and the other being a spendthrift.
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And
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I kind of think that bird's going to get flushed out regardless.
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Like if someone's conducting financial infidelity and you say, all right, we're doing joint accounts, then they're either going to find another way to do it or it's just going to bring the issue to the forefront and you're going to get separated.
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It's a bigger problem than we can solve with our financial planning guidance.
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Yeah.
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Whether finances are combined or joint, I think another big question that every couple grapples with, and we see this as financial advisors a lot.
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The other big question that households have to grapple with is how much each spouse should be involved in household financial decision-making.
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Again, as advisors, we see this all the time.
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It's very common for there to be a primary financial spouse, whereas the less financial spouse is sometimes not even super engaged in the financial conversation.
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You can have a lot of conversations that end up being dominated by
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