Although many Americans are behind the curve when it comes to saving for retirement, that doesn't mean they're prioritizing retirement products—nor are they budgeting for them.

That's according to Lincoln Financial Group's 2015 American Consumer Study, which found that those consumers are pretty well divided into two camps on their attitudes about money:

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  • the "in control and confident" camp, consisting of 36 percent of respondents, described their relationship with money in such terms as "I love it" or "I control it"

  • the "not in control; money is a necessity" camp

Forty percent of respondents in the study characterized their relationship with money in such statements as "I'm struggling with it" to "It's a means to an end" and even "I hate it."

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