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Arlene and Richard Baughman were wed in 1940, two years before Richard was drafted to serve in World War II. The couple, who met on a movie date with friends, eventually had six children. Arlene still wears her original wedding ring. Through it all, the two say they’ve never gotten in a fight. “If we had differences we just talked about it,” Richard told WNYT. “We always said, we didn’t have dishes to throw or shoes to throw because we couldn’t afford it. So, we had to get along!” Arlene said. \[[_WNYT_](http://wnyt.com/article/stories/s3873548.shtml)\] ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] You know, almost [00:04] all fights about money start in the same place. And [00:07] that's an alternative. People come in and say, hey. I've [00:10] just gotten this $ 5, 000 bonus. Should we save it for [00:14] our kid's college? Or should we use it to take a [00:16] vacation? And then invariably, one of the people has [00:19] one viewpoint. The other has another Unfortunately, for [00:23] most of us, we don't leave that view that it's a binaural [00:27] choice, that it's one or the other. What I'd like to [00:29] suggest is the easiest way to not have a fight about [00:32] money is to understand that you have a range of [00:35] alternatives, that you don't have to have one person [00:37] win and one person lose, but you have to find a way [00:40] for both of you to win, and the answer is invariably a [00:43] combination. Or an alternative nobody thought of. [00:46] Perhaps you're gonna take $ 2, 000 and save it for [00:49] college and you're gonna take $ 3, 000 and increase [00:52] your budget for eating out together. So the answer's [00:55] almost always something different than either A or B. [00:59] So next time you're in a money discussion and you see [01:02] yourself digging in, Think about how we get to an and [01:06] instead of an or. 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