Spread the expenses, better understand each other’s expectations, find the ideal balance… what if the accounting exercise within the couple became a new discourse of love?
When Sandrine Verdier, 45, a sales manager, had him travel plan by her husband she saw red. Traveling the roads of Australia, watching the sun rise over Uluru, admiring the koalas…he’s dreamed of it since childhood. And even remembers mentioning it when he first met Hugh seventeen years ago. “But it was never the right time. There were always other priorities. a new job that was too demanding, the birth of our daughter… And never enough money,” she says. A few weeks after her thirty-ninth birthday in 2018, Sandrine opened a spreadsheet on her computer, outlined her five-month travel expenses, and created an actual budget file. “I developed some charts to take into account our savings, our debt, the cost of travel. I even planned a “safety net” tab, he describes. I absolutely wanted to leave on my 40th.”…
Source: Le Figaro
