I just started dating someone I really like, but he’s moving to Mexico for six months. Should I spend the money to visit him?
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Personal finance media increasingly blurs into relationship counseling — money decisions are being framed as values and lifestyle choices, not just math. For consumer-facing fintech or planning tools, the opportunity is in modeling tradeoffs around experiences and relationships, not just optimizing savings rates.
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