How Your Relationships Can Influence How You Interact With Money

Marriage and divorce aren’t the only types of relationships that can have an impact on your interactions with money. Long before you even consider marriage the beliefs you have relating to money; its prominence, and how you should behave with it, are cemented in childhood. Across several key stages in your development your interactions with money can be influenced by the relationships you develop and maintain throughout your life such as:

• Inclusion or exclusion due to your socioeconomic status;
• Navigating various friend groups;
• When, where, or if you attend college;
• The types of jobs you seek out;
• Romantic partners;
• Etc.

The Scholastic Book Fair

If you’ve ever attended the scholastic book fair in elementary school you know that students would generally fall into the category of the “haves” or the “have nots”. Either you had money to buy the books, supplies, or games available or you walked up and down the aisles wishing you did. This occurrence could generate not only feelings of shame or guilt for not having money, but also impact your self-esteem and feelings of self-worth.