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The Eight Hundred Dollar Secret That Posted on the First

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The first time Daniel told me we needed to "tighten things up," I actually felt proud of him.

We'd been married nine years, and money had always been the thing we argued about least, mostly because there had never been quite enough of it to fight over. So when he sat me down at the kitchen table one Sunday and said he wanted to start maxing out his 401k while we were still young enough for it to matter, I reached across and squeezed his hand. This was the responsible man I'd married. I told him I was on board.

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