Applied Couples Money: Across Life Events, Career Changes, and the Long Arc

Applied couples money management evolves across life events, career changes, and the long arc. This applied course teaches integrated reasoning through case-based modules. By the end of this course you will be able to adapt money management across life events, navigate career changes, integrate money planning with broader life decisions, and sustain practice across years. What you will learn: - Approaches to life events including marriage, children, illness, and inheritance - Approaches to career changes including job loss, sabbatical, and self-employment - Approaches to integrating money with broader life decisions including housing and education - Approaches to handling specific situations including supporting extended family - Approaches to handling differences in risk tolerance and time horizons - Approaches to coordinating with professionals including planners and counselors - Approaches to long-term partnership through changes in income and assets The course is structured around six applied modules. Each produces a written artifact: a life events plan, a career changes plan, an integration plan, a specific situations response, a differences plan, and a long-term reflection. This course is written for couples thinking across the long arc. By the end you will have moved from year-by-year reactivity to a sustained, partner-aligned practice.