Double Dating and Overspending

Being married, my wife and I have been double dating with married family members, married friends, and non-married couples who are friends. It is a different mechanic from just hanging out with friends from what we talk about to what we are doing. There is a lot of catching up, vacation talk, future plans and other things that get discussed. We are not sitting at home watching UFC fights, but going to a comedy club, eating brunch, lunch or dinner, watching a ball game or something else.

We are now feeling the consequences of splurging the last month or so. We are not having to go back to when we first started, hardly eating out, not going to events and being very frugal, but we do have to watch our spending moving forward. It was fun having more freedom to spend without having to worry about the next credit card bill. Now that the bill has come, and we got a lot of the want to spend out of our system, it is now time to make a better financial plan. There will still have things that we will want to buy, yet we will have to watch out for what we “need” and what we “want.”

There are many differences in interactions, dating and financials when it comes to marriage. There is a lot more planning involved and carefulness with budget. However, I can see how marriage makes a person grow, from having to think of someone else and not just living for yourself.