Americans are waiting longer to get married, and women are making—and investing—more money than ever. That has had big implications for romantic relationships, including when it comes to how couples talk about their finances.
In the past, marriage invoked images of a young couple starting out with next to nothing and building a nest egg together. That arrangement has become less common as the median age for a first marriage has risen to record highs—age 28 in the case of women in the U.S., and age 30.5 for men. Meanwhile, the share of people getting married for the first time in their forties and fifties quadrupled between 1990 and 2019.
