Wednesday, February 9, 2011

When the Issues Related to Money Turn into Ego-Battle between Spouses


The passage of time often brings in added existential dilemmas and complications in life, and money plays a very dicey and tricky role in this aspect. The recent financial wounds caused by debts and other financial downturns has touched all our worlds equally and made us turn to various debt settlement companies and debt management programs in order to re-shape our distorted face of personal finance and to put together the scattered pieces of financial security. Since ages we have run and chased money to debt at times and at worst moments, monetary issues have seeped into our familial life as well, and at many times, it has wrecked havoc in marital lives; sometimes in form of ego hassles and at times in form of financial deficiencies. Till now you must have read many blogs related to financial deficiencies which damages marital bliss and understanding between couples and partners due to several forms of economic stress and financial insecurity but very few people read about the most common threat posed by money-related aspects in married couples or partners, and that is the ego hassles between them. We are living in a century of complete gender parity where both men and women are equally positioned as professionals, as well as personal domain.

 It has thus been noticed several times that disparity in income earning and slightly unequal material possession by either of the partner creates an environment of envy, ego and latent feelings of complex on the partner who is comparatively falling behind the other one in terms of income generation and wealth building. This situation generally occurs at home where both the partners are equally ambitions and career-driven, apart from belonging to the same professional field which leads to subtle competition between each other resulting into professional resentment and personal self pride, if not checked at proper time. For example the recent conditions of debt had brought a curse called recession which saw many people jobless and unemployed and there appeared many homes where the male counterpart have to sit back at home in search of a new employment prospect, while the female partner somehow managed to retain her source of income. At such cases, the infamous male ego triggered by a feeling of financial loss and insecurity starts playing dirty to loosen the chords of marital faith and maturity between partners. Numerous such anecdotes can be found around you where money and wealth have played a critical role in imbibing ego tussles between partners. But above all, everyone should remember the fact that at such financially turbulent times, money and its assistance is much more important as any decent source is much more important than the fact that the woman of the house is earning it for the family.






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