Getting to know you and your partner -- Love-- and dead ends-- are blind -- Finance is in the eye of the beholder--our individual money styles -- "We need to talk" -- Conducting your financial state of the union meeting -- Merging and managing your financial life together -- Yours, mine, and ours--marrying your finances-- or not -- No secrets--keeping and maintaining good financial records -- Successfully preparing for your financial life events -- Setting up house -- Children and couplehood -- Being prepared for emergencies -- Retirement--at long last and how long will our money last? -- Estate planning -- Investing today--what you need to do now -- Times have changed -- What to invest in now -- Epilogue--parting words.