FREE QUIZ: Learn how your emotions impact your financial future. I attended a beautiful wedding ceremony a few weeks ago. He was Italian. She was Jamaica. This was his second marriage. This was her first. He had two children that he brought to the marriage. She, on the other hand, was looking forward to starting
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Today, I will be on HuffPostLive talking about money and marriage. YUM!!! I wrote the following article for LearnVest earlier this year. I am sharing it with you. 🙂 I get it from my mama. I grew up in a home with a lot of contradictory messages around money. My mother was the first of
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I met Ella last year at the 2013 Blogging While Brown Conference. It was my first time ever attending a blogger conference and I did not know what to expect. I met Ella during lunch and she was so open and approachable. We kept in touch and then lost touch…But at the 2014, we picked
Read MoreAfter the infamous DC trip, where I discovered some reluctance to share finances with my husband,  we thought it would be a good idea to begin the process of merging our finances. Prior to agreeing to establish joint savings and checking accounts, we had paid everything separately. As the techie in the family (he thinks I
Read MoreA friend of mine who recently got engaged called to catch up earlier today. Naturally, I asked her how the wedding planning was coming along. She laughed it off lightly and said ‘It’s not!’. She hadn’t made much progress in planning for her nuptials and confided that she didn’t foresee much more in the way
Read MoreOf the two of us, my husband and I will both readily admit that I am the more responsible one financially. Because he knows that frugality is not his strongest point, he eagerly leaves it to me handle the bills and personal finances. And while I have to say that it is in all actuality
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Last week my husband and I were having a discussion. I mentioned to him that I was thinking about going back to school to pursue an advanced degree. His immediate response was ‘how are we going to pay for that’? Now my husband is always super supportive of me and all my endeavors, so I
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Disclosure: Ladies, don’t kill me for what I am about to say. Gentlemen, you are welcome in advance. 🙂 A lot of ladies grow up looking forward to the day that the man that they love (and who loves them) gets down on one knee, pulls out a small box that contains a big diamond
Read Moreby Dr. Laurén A. Doamekpor I still consider myself a newlywed. It’s been a year and a half of marital bliss (for the most part) and counting. And in our super busy lives, I’m learning that it takes work to not only make a marriage work, but it also takes an incredibly amount of work
Read MoreI started dating when I was fifteen. I got married at thirty-two. That means that I spent over half of my life interacting with the opposite sex. I learned a lot. A-L-O-T. My dating history coupled with my passion for personal finance coach and girl power has molded some strong beliefs about men and money.
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