Christian Premarital Counseling Manual for Counselors

- Preparing the Two to Be One -

Handling Marital Finances in a Marriage

Session #4

Rev. Paul J. Bucknell
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Intro | Design | Communication | Decisions | Finances | Differences | Intimacy

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Description of Handling Marital Finances

'Handling Marital Finances' helps the premarital counselor recognize any significant area of financial matters by reviewing some financial guidelines and answering targeted financial questions.

Guidelines and answering targeted financial questions.

Couples often argue over how to handle their finances.It was okay when I made the decisions! The husband can still do that (and the wife should understand and appreciate that), but he is not wise to do it without his wife’s input. The reason to make them one is to gain extra wisdom.

Get into the touchy areas. See if they are both committed to tithing, how they use credit cards, debt in general, etc.. Remember this session builds on the former ones that discuss good communication and decision making.

Finances is another area for them to discuss!...

Further discussion is found in the book.

We will next look at how to work through differences between the spouses in a new marriage. Next ->

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