In our current kind of jobs, you know, I am kind of the higher earner of the two of us.

There has been kind of a battle around, well, if you're not the majority provider in

this family, why are you kind of dedicating so much time to your job?

There's sometimes where, like, he tells me, why am I doing this if I'm the person that

provides the most and you are the person that works the most, you should be maybe doing

more for the house instead of me that I make more and I bring more to a table.

So I feel like it comes from there and then when he made the joke, I was like, okay, if

you don't want to support me, I can't do it myself.

My name is Ramit Sethi and this is the I will teach you to be rich podcasts.

My guests today are not and they're both higher earners, but between the two of them

burns more and this has placed them into a dynamic where until now he's had the majority

of the power when it comes to making household decisions.

You'll hear them describe that recently decided to quit her job and become an entrepreneur

and this has disrupted the normal dynamics of their relationship.

They came to me because they believed that they had an issue about entrepreneurship, her

decision to become one.

But as we peel the layers, you're going to discover through listening to these clues that

the real problem here is actually not about her becoming an entrepreneur.

It's about something much, much deeper.

Let's listen.

We're on a particular juncture in that is quitting her job to pursue a startup and

that of course brings conversations about money.

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