I had some difficult conversations with my future spouse. It's not fun to think about money or kids or religion or finances when you are in the honeymoon of your early love.

But it is so important. We talk all the time about company and team alignment, but being aligned with your spouse matters so much more.

Yep: and of course their own expectations (partially fueled by other people's weddings and movies).

The priority in this case (for the subset the article is referring to, of course) is always expectations > practicalities like money.

"After all, you only get married once"...

I see the word "deserve" constantly in marketing and in people's justifications for the things they buy, and it drives me insane. A transaction is giving something up in exchange for something else. What someone thinks they "deserve" has absolutely no effect on whether a purchase makes your life better or worse.