Every relationship faces disagreements over routines, priorities or money.
But financial conflict can cut deeper when two people disagree on what counts as responsible spending, reasonable saving or basic fairness, and those unresolved differences can expose larger tensions inside even serious relationships.
Caller Questions Fiancé’s Extreme Frugal Habits During a call on "The Ramsey Show", a woman named Jackie asked whether she should move forward with marrying her fiancé, whose extreme frugality has repeatedly caused conflict in their relationship.
Jackie said her fiancé’s money-saving habits were "bordering on cheap." She told Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze that even a simple request to buy avocados could send him into a mental calculation over which grocery store had the lowest price.
The issue, however, was not really about produce.
