Nick Crawford: How do you talk to your spouse about money?

And one of the things we're going to talk about is just the conversations around money and whether, you know, what are you like in your household? Because couples and families...

often find it quite difficult to talk about money.

Do they find it difficult or do they just avoid

it?

Well, it's a bit of yin and yang, isn't it? Half glass full, half glass half empty.

But it does seem to be one of those topics where people, some couples are great at talking about it.

They're transparent.

They know every dollar that comes in and out and they've worked at it all out.

And others, mum or dad or husband or wife or whoever, one side of their relationship, will just assume that the other side is looking after it all.

I'm not going to make any comment from my own point of view because my wife's not part of this conversation, so I'm not going to really share anything about the sort of conversations we have about money.

But unsurprisingly, some of the conversations we have were just we wish we had more of it.

But there we go.

But are you...

Up to date, are you clear about the money side of your relationship? Do you have conversations about looking forward to the future? Because I've got a bit of a theory I'm just going to make it up as I go along.

But I do have a theory that when times are tight and you're stressed, you don't want to talk about money unless it's about we need to button back the spending because you don't want to talk about how bloody dismal it is right now.

And a lot of people have found the cost of living, they might say, some people say the cost of living crisis is over.

It's like, well, the wall's been built.

It hasn't been knocked down.

It's still blimmin' expensive for a lot of things.

So we'd love to know what conversations you have in your family, and maybe our guest, who actually it's his idea to have a chat about this, by the way, he is the managing director of the private office.

We've actually talked with him before about what do you do if you hit it rich, and we might even touch on a couple of issues around Lotto later on, because I'm really bloody annoyed that they're making it harder to win.

So we might have a look at that later on.

But anyway, it's a very good afternoon to Nick Crawford.