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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Just on people changing over time.
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Some of the research that we'll talk about does show that there is a pretty stable characteristic in terms of your propensity to spend, which we'll also talk about.
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So marriage is obviously a big commitment.
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It's kind of the make like emotionally, but it also changes the legal nature of your relationship.
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Like it comes with real legal obligations and liabilities.
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Now I know obligations and liabilities don't sound very romantic,
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But I think that's the reality of marriage.
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It's as much about love as it is about commitment.
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And the law tends to support that commitment that you say you're wanting to make.
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And so entering into a marriage ends up being this really big financial decision.
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You're sharing your life with somebody, but you're also sort of incurring these costs if you want to walk away from the marriage in the future.
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So we're going to walk through what the research says about the finances of marriage across five different questions that shape how our relationships connect to our finances.
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Choosing who to marry, as Ben, you mentioned, obviously goes way beyond finances, but I think it's worth understanding what the evidence says about who is compatible long-term in terms of their financial behaviors.
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So this is research we've talked about in the past.
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We've actually had Scott Rick, one of the co-authors on the podcast,
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I don't remember what episode that was, but this is based on a 2008 paper that conceptualized a scale of spending behavior from tight wads to spend or thrifts.
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And the key difference between those two profiles, those two ends of the spectrum or the scale is how they experience what the authors call an anticipatory pain of pain.
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So that's an immediate emotional response felt at the moment of purchase rather than a rational calculation about future consequences or payoffs.
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The difference is that tight wads feel that pain of spending money too acutely and they spend less than they would ideally like to.
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That's the key there is that not that they're frugal, which we'll touch on in a second, but they're spending less than they would prefer to be spending.
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