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>> shepard: you say that on the first date? not on a first date. maybe the second date. >> something you have to report on some dating website. it's -- >> neil: you can lie about it. >> in the future, like 23 years, them wanting a dna profile. you know, really, as you get older -- >> neil: like getting married. >> i wouldn't have been born. i didn't see that coming. >> my boyfriend now said that he typically does ask people this. he doesn't ask me. but in the past he's asked. >> but not now. what is your name, what is your sign and credit rating. >> yeah. >> one of the things you break up on is money differences. that's representative of a world view and compatibility. >> some people will have -- show
of the cross-class couples that you spoke with. what sort of tensions did they have as a result of coming from different back grounds. >> it is about how much you want to manage things versus going with the flow. couples had a different with money differences. do you want a budget or spend as you go along and feel that you can feel free from constraint of a budget. same kind of with children. do you want to raise them with a plan in mind or organize their daily life and structure their time, or do you want to let them kind of make their own schedule and let them make their own goals to some extent. >> when you talk about tensions in a marriage. one of the things that can come up i've been told is kids and so let's talk about the children in these types of marriages and relationships. what is the effect on the children of the mixed class marriages. do they tend to identify with one group more than the other? do they tend to be more proud of one group than the other? >> yeah. it is hard to know for sure.