If you’re a reader of any of the more popular Personal Finance blogs out there, you’ve probably read about doing a monthly financial meeting. I don’t want to go over the same things that have been spoken about in the past but just want to emphasize how good this is for a healthy marriage or relationship.
I think that this is especially necessary if only one of you pays all the bills. It’s a way for the other person in the relationship to understand what’s happening and lightens the stress on the person paying the bills. For my husband and I, it’s a time when we sit for an hour and only discuss financial stuff. I’ve even been known to ban laptops from the room so we can focus. 
I typically put together a little list of stuff ahead of time as I think of it and then we talk about those items. At some point we typically end up talking about our future goals and what we’d like to see for ourselves in the future. Sometimes we talk about the next year or two and sometimes we talk about five years down the road and sometimes we talk about life after retirement. It has become a way for us to hear the other person’s goals and align the dreams for our future into one picture. The point is that it’s a time when we focus only on things related to finances and our future, nothing else comes into the conversation.