Money is the key to wedded bliss - NYT

NVDL: It may not sound very romantic, but it makes sense to marry someone who appriopriately reflects your value, and you theirs. And money isn't necessarily a bad means to ascertain one's worth.

Today, while most of us marry for romantic reasons, marriage at its core is still a financial union. So much of what we want — or don’t want — out of life boils down to dollars and cents, whether it’s how hard we choose to work, how much we consume or how much we save. For some people, it’s working 80-hour weeks to finance a third home and country club membership; for others, it means cutting back on office hours to spend more time with the family. - NYT

clipped from www.nytimes.com IF you ask married people why their marriage works, they are probably not going to say it’s because they found their financial soul mate. But if they are lucky, they have. Marrying a person who shares your attitudes about money might just be the smartest financial decision you will ever make. In fact, when it comes to finances, your marriage is likely to be your most valuable asset — or your largest liability. Marrying for love is a relatively recent phenomenon. For centuries, marriages were arranged affairs, aligning families for economic or political purposes or simply pooling the resources of those scraping by.