Money worries rank among the highest causes of marital stress and divorce. Yet few people recognize that their spending habits might have more to do with their emotions, their upbringing, and their communication skills than with their net income. In Till Debt Do Us Part, Dr. Bernard Poduska helps you understand where your financial problems might have their roots, how you can learn to balance your own needs with your family's desires, and how you can manage debt even when it seems to have gotten completely out of your control. You'll learn how to recognize and overcome addictive spending, how to get through the month with the money you have, and how to plan for your future. If you're ready to get to the bottom of your financial challenges, Till Debt Do Us Part will give you the tools and insights you need.

Free yourself from maxed-out cards, mounting interest, and constant money stress with this “entertaining and easy to read” guide (Windsor Star). If you’re afraid to open your bills, if you’ve never added up how much you owe, if you can’t even imagine being debt-free—it’s time to join the thousands of people Gail Vaz-Oxlade has helped. Her straightforward approach to money management is based on self-control, hard work, and prioritizing what’s really important. Debt-Free Forever is Gail’s step-by-step guide, and she’ll show you how to: figure out how much you’ve actually been spending calculate how much you owe—and what it’s costing you build a budget that works maximize your debt repayments so you can be free of consumer debt in three years or less prepare for a rainy day so it doesn’t cause a major setback set goals for your new, debt-free life Make no mistake: Getting out of debt isn’t easy. But in Debt-Free Forever, Gail gives you a clear strategy and the steps needed to implement it. So if you’re finished with excuses, overdue notices, and maxed-out credit cards, follow the plan—and start becoming debt-free forever.

As the lead soprano of Christian Fellowship Missionary Church, Nichole Singleton semes to have everything a woman could ask for: a loving husband, a job she adores, supportive family and friends, and a church she has called home since her teens. But her husband, Jeffrey, is controlling. Unable to cope with his master plan for their marriage, Nichole turns to gambling instead of communicating with her spouse and taking her fears to the Lord. When her gambling debt soars out of control, Nichole nearly loses all that is near and dear to her. When a tragic family accident occurs, Nichole feels she has no one to turn to. Through her trials and tribulations, will Nichole remember to put her trust in God and reaffirm her faith in the Lord?

Explaining difficult concepts in plain English with a breezy style, this third edition has new material covering new tax laws, retirement savings strategies, a chapter on identity theft, and question-and-answer sidebars.

We live in a world of growing singleness. While lots of attention is being paid to senior singles, less has been given to younger women and men who find themselves suddenly single—through separation or divorce or through the death of a partner—or to those who come to the realization that perhaps partnership isn’t in the cards and they need to start planning for themselves. Single women make up more than half the population of Canadian women. And they’re facing financial and life challenges for which they’re unprepared. Both Victoria and Gail know that single doesn’t have to suck. But a newly minted CEO of Everything will face some challenges, so Gail and Victoria are here with a heads up! CEO of Everything maps out the territory that singles find themselves in and guides readers through topics that form the new land of singleness. Jobs once shared by two now fall on the shoulders of one. And as if life isn’t busy enough, the state of singleness means you get to do it all, all day and every day. What is normal when you are suddenly planning for life for one? What do you need to look out for, be responsible for and be prepared for? This book will help readers decide what’s urgent, what’s important and what they can afford to just let go unattended. (Baby, you may be strong, but nobody can do it ALL.)

As a parent, you want the best for your kids. You work hard to provide them with every advantage. You want them to be safe, smart and healthy. Yet when it comes to money, it’s a whole different story. If you’re like most people, you’d rather run a mile through a desert with a camel on your back than talk about money with your children. Are you going to follow in your parents’ footsteps, keeping financial matters a deep, dark secret? Or do you want your children to have a healthy, balanced attitude toward money? Then it’s time to pull your head out of the sand and roll up your sleeves. Gail Vaz-Oxlade, Canada’s #1 personal finance expert, believes that teaching kids about money is a parent’s job. She knows that building confidence and money skills starts with an age-appropriate allowance to help your kids accomplish important tasks: Making saving a habit Learning the difference between needs and wants Using the “magic jars” to balance competing goals Creating lifelong money management skills What better gift could you give your children than the confidence to control their money, rather than letting their money control them? Let Gail help you raise “Money-Smart Kids.”

With everything she does, Gail Vaz-Oxlade focuses on putting money in perspective and encouraging people to take control of their money and their lives. But over the years, she’s found that an astonishing number of smart, competent women are relinquishing that control. It’s Your Money is designed to inspire and inform them to take charge of their financial destinies. This book will help each reader come to terms with why she deals with her money as she does. It helps her establish a solid financial foundation on which to build as she moves through her life. Gail walks her through the major milestones—partnering, raising a family and retiring—making sure she is empowered to make her own decisions, if she’s in a relationship or not. It also shows the reader how to cope when stuff hits the fan, without adding financial stress to her burdens. For the woman who finds herself the sole breadwinner in a family, dealing with aging parents or coping with divorce or widowhood, Gail shows her how to keep her financial life on track. Whether they need Gail’s voice to encourage them to reach for new financial goals, or to kick their credit-card-happy butts back into line, women will turn to It’s Your Money in good times and in bad.

If financial shortcomings are driving a wedge between you and your spouse, you may be one of the thousands of husbands and wives who- while knowing all sorts of money management do's and don'ts--still haven't been able to keep off the emotional roller coaster of out-of-control finances. Freely sharing the "been there, still am sometimes!" foibles of her own marriage, Julie Barnhill offers liberal doses of humor along with solid principles from God's word to help you come clean about the real issues--the heart issues that keep you and your spouse in discontent and budget bondage. Move toward honesty, healing, and real-life change.

If you sense that something is missing in your marriage, Strike the Original Match can help you rediscover the warmth and joy you thought were gone forever. This best-selling book has helped thousands of couples strengthen and rebuild their marriages.