That was the headline on this story from Yahoo! News.

Big Spenders Likely To Marry Big Savers is the headline used by Huffington post to refer to this story.

My remark on Huffington Post was:

Well, neither the headline on HuffPo nor the one on Yahoo! live up to what the story really said.

What the study found was that people who don’t like the fact that they are big spenders tend to marry people who don’t like the fact that they are tightwads.

It does not say anything about big spenders who are happy being big spenders nor tightwads who are happy being tightwads.

Both my wife and I fall into the category of tightwads who are happy with the way we are. There have been very few disagreements over money in our 40 years of married life.

What I should have added is that Sharon and I have often remarked how happy we are that we found partners with similar views to our own on money matters.