The Best Things in Life Are Free… But, Uh, Baby? What’s Your Credit Score?

What’s the number one cited reason for divorce? Other than Facebook, that is: financial issues. Even though most of us go in knowing this, we rarely ever take the time to discuss finances with our partners until long into a relationship.

We here at Sex and the 405 think this is a bit ass-backward — especially in credit crisis times — so when we came across this little morsel from the peeps at FICO, we were giddy to share.

FICO’s Valentine’s survey found all kinds of other neat things. Check it:

• Women were twice as likely to choose “a good FICO score” as the most important characteristic in a date while men are six times as likely to choose “good looking” as the most important characteristic in a date. Having an excellent FICO score ranked third – which topped being “rich,” “good looking” and “having great teeth” by both the men and women.
• 20 percent of couples described their partners’ spending habits as “drastically different” from their own and over 45 percent described them as moderately different. (Only 20 percent of couples rated each others’ spending habits the same).

Via Rita Arens.