Mairead Loughman

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434 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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Just Between Us with Jennifer Zamparelli · Should everything be 50/50? Money in relationships · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

What I would say is for some people, that's fine and you can do 50-50.

Somebody else might be on €25,000 a year and the other person might be on €100,000 a year and that might work for them.

Again, a conversation around who pays more and how it works within the dynamic.

For somebody else, they might just cover the mortgage and the other person might put in a little bit more into the income.

joint account, whatever way it works for you.

But again, once it's fair, you can't have somebody that's on a very low income expected to pay a huge mortgage and keep up the spending power of someone that's on 100, 120,000 euro.

But again, as I said, it has to be fair.

I think, again, if they're not able to have a conversation about money before having children, there's going to be much bigger issues down the road.

But again, having a genuine conversation about how you're going to pay for creche once this baby comes along.

Again, the financial implications of maternity leave.

You have to remember as well, not only is your...

Salary going to be reduced for the months you're on maternity leave.

Your pension is also going to be reduced.

And also the costs, you know, of buying all this stuff for a new baby, everything like that.

Childcare, again, as I said, how many hours you can work.

All the different things that can reduce your income.

I think you should be anyway for whatever it is in your relationship.

So like organically, you should be sitting down on a daily, weekly basis and just organically having the conversations, you know, hey, just letting you know school fees are due.

We're coming close to the end of the summer.

kids back to school uniforms and what do we need to get and everything like that.

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