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This week’s topic is blended families, which is to say families where at least one partner has children from a previous relationship. Our guest is financial adviser and coach Catherine Thomas-Humphreys who specialises in helping parents and families create new, confident, positive money relationships that work for them, to support what they want to really enjoy in life so they can focus on what really matters most to them.
Dr Jane Major returns to discuss the psychology behind giving and receiving expensive gifts and grand gestures. How much is generosity, how much is people-pleasing or covering for low self-esteem and how much is a manipulative urge to put another person in your debt or buy a pass for bad behaviour past or future? What about receiving gifts? How do we communicate our preferences or concerns and how can we learn to accept a genuine gift that may feel like “too much”?