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You and Money are in a Relationship
Like any other friend, lover, or relative, how you treat your relationship with money matters.
Ok, let’s talk about a super-uncomfortable subject: Money.
Money is everywhere. Like it or not, you deal with money every single day of your life.
If you are anything like me (and since you are reading this I am going to make a presumption that at least, in some way, you ARE) you have a complicated relationship with money.
Yes, relationship.
Money tends to be a lover that you secretly want to spend as much time with as possible, yet feel shame about. You and money are very much in a relationship. I am not crazy (well, ok, I am, but not on this topic) so personifying it in this manner may help improve that relationship.
Think about it this way. If you are with a person, whether friend, lover, or relative, how you treat them will impact all aspects of your relationship with them. If you are kind, caring, and empathetic towards them you invite the same in return.
However, if you are scornful, unkind, wishy-washy, and going between telling them how much you want them — but then pushing them away and telling them how much you hate them — how do you think that will go? This will certainly be a difficult relationship at best, of not outright…
