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Financial Infidelity: Seven Steps to Conquering the #1 Relationship Wrecker [Paperback / softback]

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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 312 pages, height x width x depth: 208x137x23 mm, weight: 408 g
  • Pub. Date: 01-Apr-2009
  • Publisher: Plume Books
  • ISBN-10: 0452289998
  • ISBN-13: 9780452289994
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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 312 pages, height x width x depth: 208x137x23 mm, weight: 408 g
  • Pub. Date: 01-Apr-2009
  • Publisher: Plume Books
  • ISBN-10: 0452289998
  • ISBN-13: 9780452289994
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A leading couples therapist evaluates secret spending behaviors that compromise relationships, explaining the dangers of binge shopping, financial power plays, hidden bank accounts, and other factors while offering counsel on the relationship between money and intimacy.

From an acclaimed couples therapist the first book ever to address the financial power struggles in relationships

Money not sexual adultery is the #1 problem in relationships. According to Dr. Bonnie, one of the nation s leading couples therapists, ?nearly one-third of adults in committed relationships admit to lying to their partner about spending habits.? Secret credit cards, binge shopping, revenge spending, and POPs (pissed off purchases) are just a few examples of how financial infidelity undermines trust and harms a relationship.

With clarity and compassion, Dr. Bonnie who has a near one hundred percent success rate in counseling couples? helps readers recognize their hidden financial indiscretions, reconnect with their partners, and recover the trust and intimacy in their relationships.

Foreword ix
Sunny Shulkin
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xvii
PART I: What Is Financial Infidelity?
Understanding Financial Infidelity
3(18)
Financial Infidelity: Are You at Risk?
21(16)
Facing Financial Infidelity
37(20)
PART II: The Seven Steps
Calculate the Cost What the Balance Sheet of Your Relationship Reveals
57(34)
Examine Your Power Dynamic If Money Is Power, Is There a Balance in Your Relationship?
91(32)
Divest Yourself of the Past Understanding Your Inherited Money Legacy
123(38)
Break Up with Your Money Letting Go of Money's Emotional Hold
161(34)
Define the Currency of Your Relationship Working Toward a ``Free'' Exchange of Love and Intimacy
195(24)
Refinance Your Relationship Reorganizing Your Priorities to Reclaim Lasting Love
219(26)
Invest in Your Future The Ongoing Work of Maintaining Your Relationship
245(48)
PART III: The Biochemical Component
The Brain-Body Connection
267(22)
A Final Word: The Case for Financial Fidelity and Lasting Love
289(4)
Bibliography and Sources 293(6)
About the Author 299(2)
A Note to Readers from Dr. Bonnie 301(2)
Index 303