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It's hard for a lot of us to talk about money because of how we were raised,
because we're told it's impolite conversation,
because we don't know how to communicate with people who have a lot more or a lot less money than we do,
and for a million other reasons.
And yet, in the astute words of Wu-Tang Clan, cash rules everything around me.
Money is the hidden participant at every dinner table.
Like every major life change that we go through, we effectively have to have a money discussion.
When someone has a child, right, that comes with a financial burden.