Julia Munslow

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How to Talk About Your Debt While Navigating the Dating Scene · 6 Feb 2025 podcast

For the woman that I was just speaking about, she would ask people when they were still on the dating app, before they had even met, you know, like, hey, what are your expectations for who is handling the bill?

And she told me that oftentimes people would tell her, like, oh, I got it.

I'm the one who invited you, so I'll pay.

But obviously not everyone is comfortable doing that.

For her, it actually helped her assuage a lot of her anxiety issues.

Other people will wait to talk about it until they're getting more serious with the person, getting into the actual relationship.

But 27% of Americans have waited until after they've gotten married to talk about debt with their partner.

I spoke to a licensed marriage and family therapist who said that a lot of couples feel really uncomfortable talking about their finances, but it's really, really important to understand how the other person is.

acts around money, how they manage their money, their spending habits.

But she also says if you're dating casually, if you're just getting out there for fun, it's okay to not disclose your debt.

But if you're doing it and you are hoping to find that forever person, it's important to talk about it at some point.

I talked to this one couple in Texas, and when they met, the woman had a lot more debt than her partner does.

But even though she owed $15,000 across credit card debt, $35,000 in loans, and $27,000

thousand dollars in a car loan, she started to pick up extra side hustles and extra jobs and extra shifts.

And she was throwing every single dollar that she could at this debt.

Now, this meant that they weren't able to spend as much time together.

But her partner was really, really understanding of what she was trying to do.

He supported her.

He told me that he felt really proud to see her working really hard to pay down this debt, even though he didn't have it himself.

And I think all of this connects to the idea, too, that it really can depend on what type of debt you have, whether it's federal student loans or whether it's consumer debt and how you're managing it.

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