Partners need to recalibrate their living, working, parenting and recreational patterns and get back to the drawing board about how to spend and save. No previous rules seem to apply in this age of the pandemic, job losses, political uncertainty and widespread conflict.

One needs to ask oneself basic questions about the meaning of money and how it would impact the rest of one’s life and relationship with family and loved ones.

• Most couples have disagreements and difference of opinion with matters related to money, due to many factors.
• We live in a society where attaining financial security is a huge challenge, whereas financial success is placed on a high pedestal.
• Marriage has traditionally bee...