How to Stop Cheating on Your Partner Financially
Believe it or not, cheating on your husband or wife financially can prove just as devastating to your marriage as cheating on them with another man or woman, if not a little more so. Being the breadwinners in the family more often than not, men are naturally more inclined to misinform their spouses as to their financial dealings.
Signs of financial cheating may involve your husband running to collect the mail while keeping you in the dark as to the exact content of his credit card statements. Or, even worse, he might have opened a credit card account that you don’t know anything about. Further, you have good grounds to suspect your husband of financially cheating on you if he starts beating around the bush every time you confront him on money issues.
To give you an insight into the seriousness of the problem, I will quote a study by some of America’s most renowned marriage counselors from a report of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, who claim that financial adultery accounts for over forty percent of the divorce cases in the USA. Surprisingly, most newlyweds in the US openly denounce extramarital affairs, while at the same time, they seem blissfully ignorant of the extent to which financial adultery may threaten their family togetherness. Marriage counselors say newly married spouses should try to be in the same financial boat instead of keeping a skeleton in the cupboard when it comes to money issues.
On the other hand, lack of communication between the marriage partners is widely regarded as the number one reason for financial infidelity in the family. Other reasons may involve personality traits, addiction to shopping or gambling, etc.
Also, financial cheating may occur when one of the marriage partners does not want to become financially dependent on his better half and therefore resorts to stashing out funds in a bid to keep control over his finances.
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