I would like to have counsel on how to get my husband and me on one page with our budget issues. He maintains the budget but often rearranges the numbers. Often, our communication about budgeting seems to be on different pages. Can you give us some advice?

In this short video, Ron is beginning a six-week Virtual Feedback Loop series in which he answers some subscriber questions. This week and next week, he will answer two related questions on communication in marriage. This week, he shares the give and take required as two willing spouses make an effort to handle money well together, and next week he will tackle the topic of communicating with an unwilling spouse. Wherever you and your spouse find yourselves on the communication spectrum, we hope that you find hope and encouragement in these answers.

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As always, Ron’s encouragement to you is to go back to God’s Word to restore your faith. Take a moment to consider the following Scriptures on unity and meditate on their truth and their application.

Colossians 4:6 (NKJV)
“Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (NKJV)
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up. Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one be warm alone? Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”

Amos 3:3 (NKJV)
"Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?"

Proverbs 17:1 (NKJV)
“Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.”

Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
“As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.”