Navigating Money Troubles in Marriage

Navigating Money Troubles in MarriageTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 904, Segment 5

Sep 20, 2018 • 28m

Guest: Daphne de Marneffe, PhD, Psychologist and Author, “The Rough Patch: Marriage and the Art of Living Together.” A quarter of divorcing couples cite money issues as a source of their conflict. When couples argue about money, there’s really so much more going on, according to Daphne de Marneffe \[de MARN-eff], a psychologist and author of “The Rough Patch: Marriage and the Art of Living Together.”

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