5.    Money is more important than our relationship.
Every relationship has its share of money regrets. Each partner says to himself: “If only she (or he) had let me invest… or kept me from investing… or spent money on… or not spent money on….” These regrets and unfulfilled wishes can be very expensive in terms of energy and goodwill in your relationship. This ruminating is not productive, so let it go to make more space in your relationship for future inflows of money and love.

Written by Ginita Wall and Candace Bahr, co-authors of the book It's More Than Money--It's Your Life! The New Money Club for Women. Reprinted with permission of the Women’s Institute for Financial Education. Founded in 1988, WIFE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing financial education for women. Copyright © 2006. Photo © istock/Maartje van Caspe