By Kristina Cooke
Frustrated by your spouse’s spending habits?
It might be why you married them, according to a working paper titled “Fatal (Fiscal) Attraction” by professors of the Wharton School of Finance and Northwestern University.
“Surveys of married adults suggest that opposites attract when it comes to emotional reactions toward spending,” Wharton’s Scott Rick and Deborah Small and Northwestern’s Eli Finkel said in the paper.
They found that people who generally spend less than they would ideally like to spend, and those who spend more than they would like to tend to marry each other.
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