Money is more than just money. Our money beliefs come from stories that begin long before you find your partner, and they aren't quick to change just because you love someone. The ways we learn about money, spend it, save it, and worry about it reflect our identities, values, and deepest feelings. They are tethered to who we are.
This is why navigating money as a couple requires more than budgets and bank accounts. You have to see each other, through it all.
In Money Together, Heather and Douglas Boneparth explore love and money through five themes: Origins, Mistakes, Contribution, Power, and Risk. Building upon each other, these themes show couples how to work together to form an equitable, loving, and lasting financial future-with both partners at the table.
Along with their own stories, the authors rely on the stories of real couples, whose wins and losses are as sensitive, icky, complex, and affirming as you'd imagine them to be. With help from leading financial experts, couples' therapists, psychologists, policy advocates, authors, and more, Heather and Douglas offer readers a fresh, human perspective on this taboo topic that leaves too much unsaid.
Each section ends with conversation starters to get you really talking about money. Together, the result is more than a money guide. It's a movement for creating more powerful relationships, in which both partners are heard. Money Together will help you conquer your money as a partnership - with messy, beautiful, heartbreaking and emotional stories of couples who manage their financial lives and navigate the seasons of life together.
Douglas Boneparth is a Certified Financial Planner® and the founder of Bone Fide Wealth, a wealth management firm in New York City. Recognized as one of the nation's most influential financial advisors, Douglas serves on the advisory councils for CNBC and Investopedia. He has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and more. He is also a CFP Board Ambassador for New York. Douglas received his B.S. from the University of Florida and his M.B.A. from NYU's Stern School of Business. When he's not making jokes on the internet, he enjoys brewing coffee, though he can do both at the same time.
Heather Boneparth is used to wearing many hats. On her first maternity leave, she co-authored the couple's first book on helping millennials achieve financial freedom. Since then, she has become a rising voice at the intersection of love, money, and family. She has written for CNBC, theSkimm, Insider, Motherly, Scary Mommy, and more. As a lawyer, she spent more than a decade in the insurance industry before joining the family business as Bone Fide Wealth's director of business and legal affairs. She received her B.S. from the University of Florida and her J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Heather and Douglas met in college and are Gators for life. They now live in New Jersey with their two daughters. For more, subscribe to The Joint Account, their newsletter helping couples talk about money.
