What to Do with Your Money When You’ve Just Moved in with Your Partner

It’s Day 2 of Women’s Money Week and the topic today is relationships and money. So as you know my BF and I moved into together this past September. We’d been together for 4 1/2 years at that point and moving in together was a really big step for us. I think I’ve mentioned before that I come from a Catholic background, so shacking up with your boyfriend is a definite no-no in my family. At the start of our relationship I really wanted to keep that promise and wait to move in together until after we were married. Then again, I definitely wasn’t in a hurry to get hitched either. My parents had gotten married very young and very quickly, and although they are about to celebrate 30 years together this summer, I knew I wanted to date someone for at least 5 years before walking down the aisle.

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I’ve Got Some Exciting News!

So I’ve been holding out on you guys a bit, which is so unlike me because I am absolutely terrible at keeping a secret or surprising people. I usually just get too excited and blurt everything out like that Kristen Wigg character from SNL. But look at me know! I’ve got some really exciting news and I’ve waited more than a week to blog about it! So…drum roll please…drrrrrrr clang (cymbol crash)!

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