EXCLUSIVE How to stop financial infidelity ruining your marriage: It causes one divorce in ten, but I regularly hide thousands from my husband. Here's my advice..
. By Shruti Advani For The Daily Mail Published: 20:57 EDT, 6 October 2024 | Updated: 21:02 EDT, 6 October 2024 e-mail View comments It's not cheating if they don't find out,' is an alarmingly common mantra among a certain class of married couples. Only it isn't a lover they're trying to hide.
No, the forbidden fruit in this instance might be a diamond necklace or a Rolex watch. Among the one per cent, it could even be a flat or a piece of museum-worthy art. It's not sexual infidelity we're talking here – not the taking of a mistress or a toyboy – but financial infidelity, where all manner of goodies are bought by one partner without the knowledge of the other.
Typically using joint funds. Bridgerton watchers will have seen this concept in action, with Lady Whistledown squirrelling away 'pin money' to get her first sheaf of illicit newsletters printed. But financial infidelity among the fabulously wealthy often involves more than incidental expenses gone astray – and psychologists warn it can be just as damaging to a relationship as a physical affair.
Shruti Advani says she is equal parts amused and embarrassed by her purchases and why she felt compelled to hide them from her husband It's not only the rich who are at it, of course. Among the less well-off, it might take the form of a secret £80-a-month face cr.