Debt-Proof Your Marriage: How to Manage Your Money Together

While financial disharmony can blow a marriage apart, financial harmony can bind it together. In this highly practical book, Mary Hunt helps couples bring the principles of intimacy-the foundation for harmony and debt-free living-into management of their money. These principles include acceptance, freedom, safety, and honesty in money matters, creating an atmosphere that unifies two lives into one.

Debt-Proof Your Marriage is packed with real-life advice that infuses readers with hope and direction. It covers everything couples need for managing their money in harmony, including how to:

* reconcile different money behaviors and beliefs
* let go of financial fears
* understand the basics of practical money management
* share financial work between two people
* manage roller coaster income
* successfully live debt-free

Hunt’s essential guide will help couples protect both their marriage and their money. With the interactive workbook, it’s ideal for small group study or pre-marital counseling as well.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Get Your Relationship Ready for Financial Harmony
Chapter 1. This Is My Story and I’m Sticking to It
Chapter 2. A Stiff Dose of Reality
Chapter 3. Marriage Is like a Dirt Road
Chapter 4. The Currency of Life
Chapter 5. News Flash: You Are Different
Chapter 6. For Wives Only
Chapter 7. For Husbands Only
Chapter 8. Getting It Together

Part 2: How to Debt-Proof Your Marriage
Chapter 9. Debt-Proof Living
Chapter 10. Till Debt Do Us Part
Chapter 11. You Are Here
Chapter 12. Getting Where You Want to Be
Chapter 13. A Life-Changing Formula
Chapter 14. Knowledge Is a Powerful Thing
Chapter 15. You Want Security? I’ll Show You Security!
Chapter 16. You Want Freedom? I’ll Show You Freedom!
Chapter 17. You Can Get Out of Debt
Chapter 18. Telling Your Money Where to Go

Part 3: Unique Solutions for Common Dilemmas
Chapter 19. Finding Money You Didn’t Know You Had
Chapter 20. Credit: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Chapter 21. Tell the Middleman Thanks but No Thanks
Chapter 22. How to Stay on Track with a Roller-Coaster Income
Chapter 23. What to Do When You’ve Fallen and You Can’t Get Up
Chapter 24. A Call to Faithfulness