"It's giving me the ick": Dating and money
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🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Ever had an awkward encounter around money while dating? Host Yanely Espinal speaks with author and financial therapist Aja Evans about how to have better money conversations in your romantic life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, parents and teens. This episode of Financially Inclined is presented in partnership with Greenlight, the debit card and money app for teens. |
| 0:09.2 | Dating can bring up all kinds of questions around the topic of money. How much to spend when going out? Who should pay? When to have the talk about your money goals? |
| 0:18.5 | With Greenlight, you can set financial goals and build smart |
| 0:21.6 | money habits together, making these conversations a lot easier. Make smart money moves while |
| 0:27.6 | dating. Get $10 by signing up at greenlight.com slash inclined. |
| 0:35.9 | What's up everybody? I'm Janelli Espinal and this is financially inclined for Marketplace. |
| 0:41.3 | We're sharing money lessons for living life your own way. |
| 0:57.7 | Money is bound to come up in your dating life. |
| 1:00.8 | Like who's going to pay for the movie tickets on date night? |
| 1:04.4 | Or how much you should spend on buying each other birthday gifts? |
| 1:07.8 | It could all get real awkward, real quick. Which is why I'm talking today with author and financial therapist Asia Evans |
| 1:13.1 | about money and dating. As a financial therapist, Asia helps her clients get comfortable |
| 1:18.6 | talking openly and honestly about money, and she helps them work through all the emotional |
| 1:24.1 | baggage that comes with it. She recently published a book called Feel Good Finance, so I know she'll have plenty of good |
| 1:32.3 | advice to share. |
| 1:33.8 | All right, let's get into it. |
| 1:38.4 | When you think about teenagers, they're in newer relationships for the first time, probably |
| 1:42.9 | in their first early romantic relationships. |
| 1:45.2 | And I feel like as you go on in your relationship, you start to build that deeper level of trust over time, knowing somebody and spending more time with them. |
| 1:51.8 | But at first, though, it can be a little awkward, like maybe like the first day. |
| 1:56.9 | And so how do you suggest, especially younger couples that are really new to navigating these romantic |
| 2:01.9 | relationships and how it overlaps with money, how to navigate those like can be a little bit awkward |
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