A healthy financial relationship looks a lot like a healthy relationship,” says Ayesha Scott, a researcher at AUT.

Scott researches economic abuse, and economic harm, and is among a group trying to bring about an all-of-society shift in making economic abuse in the home as unacceptable as physical violence.

Part of this is everyone learning what a healthy financial relationship looks like, and rejecting abusive behaviours entirely.

Good Shepherd, which is a social-good lender that helps people get out of problem debt, is working on a toolkit to show people what a healthy financial relationship in a couple looks like.

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