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The Daily Money: Are you guilty of financial infidelity?
View Date:2024-12-24 08:46:04
Good morning and welcome to a new week! This is Betty Lin-Fisher with The Daily Money.
When Ed Coambs was starting his financial therapy practice several years ago, he and his wife agreed to use credit cards to help him get started. But things were tougher than Coambs thought, and soon he was $30,000 in credit card debt instead of their agreed-upon amount of $10,000.
Coambs had committed what is called financial infidelity.
Find out what financial infidelity is and how you can tackle the problem in the latest installment of our Uncomfortable Conversations About Money series.
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