to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill. to give over (a certain amount of money) in exchange for something: He paid twenty dollars for the shirt.
Each individual conceives the value of money for success, perceives the value of money for social status, and senses the value of money as a means to fulfill physical needs. Money became a symbol for the success and fulfillment of the individual as a member of the collective.
Men, Women, and Money. Money is a hiddenâbut loadedâissue in most relationships. By Olivia Mellan, Karina Piskaldo, published on January 1, 1999 - last reviewed on June 9, 2016. Money is such an emotionally loaded topic that few couples discuss it directly. Yet it is, more than sex, what drives partners apart. Psychotherapist Olivia Mellan shows how to put money in its place. For most people, money is never just money, a tool to accomplish some of life's goals. It is love, power, happiness, security, control, dependency, independence, freedom and more. Money is so loaded a symbol that to unload it--and I believe it must be unloaded to live in a fully rational and balanced relationship to money--reaches deep into the human psyche.