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--> Our children are now reaching the age where talks about romance have gone from the theoretical to the practical. We are past the ‘what is most important in a person’ discussion and the ‘what a person does means more than what they say’ conversation. It is down to the real business, the basics, of romance, and in 2018 there is perhaps no more urgent topic than the intersection of love and money.    ⚜⚜ The longest relationship I had between my first marriage and the Queen, was an 18-month stint with a divorced mother of two. Her endearing qualities were regularly overshadowed by her eldest daughter’s incessant whining, and credit card balances that led me to wonder if she had a secret life. We often talked about her debt woes, how the interest and payments were too high and as things stood she would never pay it off. What began as a mostly passing concern on my part, when our relationship started -it was her problem not mine - grew into a h...

He was freaking. His future was on the verge of vanishing in a puff of disposable diapers and sleepless nights. Their relationship, ornamental at best, was by its nature quid pro quo. It was the view of each other’s material advantages that kept the romance going. The sex was good but not ‘death do us part’ good. There was no intention, on his part at least, of making what they had any more than what it was. Since their ‘talk’ he knew what must be done, the alternative was flat unacceptable. He would not be a father to a child he did not want with a woman he never loved. He was too young, too successful, and too absorbed to sacrifice his long-term plans for a short-term mistake.   He would handle everything; all she needed to do was make the appointment and get in the car. But she was not as certain. Under that lacquer façade remained a tinge of her Baptist upbringing. Those Sunday sermons about sin and brimstone, long muffled by the boom of nightclu...