Keeping secrets about money can ruin your relationship, experts say.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put romantic relationships to test with financial pressures intensified and divorce rates expected to soar.

Lockdowns have not only revealed how personalities can collide in close, constant contact, but they may have also put the spotlight on previously unnoticed conflicting financial behaviours.

According to a survey released in February—just before the pandemic hit—almost one in five Canadians admitted to keeping financial secrets from their partners, with 17 per cent of secret-keepers admitting the monetary value of their deceit exceeded $10,000.

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