
How to Talk About Money With Your Partner
Tiger Sisters
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💬 You earn more than your boyfriend. Your work bestie’s acting weird after your promotion. And your boss just commented “🔥” on your vacation pic.
In this unfiltered Tiger Sisters Hotline episode, Jean and Cherie take on your real-life dilemmas about money, power, and love… from splitting expenses with a partner to navigating awkward office politics. Honest advice, real strategy, and a lots of sisterly tough love.
We share:
✅ What to do when your work bestie turns cold after your promotion
✅ How to handle overfriendly bosses on social media
✅ The red flags in love and friendship when money becomes transactional
✅ How to talk about money with your partner (without making it awkward)
✅ When to split fairly vs. evenly — and why fairness isn’t always 50/50
✅ Why every relationship needs an operating system
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⏰ Timestamps
00:00 Welcome to the Tiger Sisters Hotline
00:55 Spotify Radar and rebrand glow-up
03:14 Dilemma #1: I make more than my boyfriend — should I pay more rent?
04:10 How to talk about money minus the awkwardness
07:44 The $10,000 thought experiment
10:46 Why you need an “operating system” for your relationship
14:00 The 70/30 rent rule and what actually feels fair
16:18 Ad Break: OneSkin
17:47 Dilemma #2: I got promoted over my work bestie — now it’s awkward
19:24 Leading with compassion and when to escalate
23:47 Dilemma #3: My boss comments on all my Instagram posts
25:04 Setting social media boundaries at work
27:02 Dilemma #4:: My boyfriend Venmo's me for everything
30:43 Cherie’s $2.80 water-bottle story
32:36 Transactional vs. generous relationships
34:00 The “standard deviation” theory of compatibility
35:57 Wrap-up
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