121. Money & Marriage Series: How Student Loans Sabotage Love & Marriage
The Suzanne Venker Show
Suzanne Venker
4.9 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A new documentary about the student loan crisis, entitled “Borrowed Future,” will stream on October 14th. Suzanne discusses how this crisis is undermining love and family formation—and why, with a shift of one's mindset, it doesn't have to.
IN THIS EPISODE:
4:00 Student loan debt is affecting a couple's availability to marry and have kids
4:50 Debt is undermining marriages and keeping couples from being successful
5:30 We've sold student debt without making young people aware of how it affects their future
6:00 Marriage is on the decline due to MONEY issues - “We can't afford to get married!”
7:40 Couples can't succeed in getting out of debt if they're not on the same page
10:25 When you do not combine finances and do not get on the same page financially, you are essentially saying you do not trust your spouse
13:55 Parents of should not encourage their kids to get into student loan debt
14:45 It does NOT matter where you get your degree
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, quick announcement. So I'm hoping you'll be very excited about this. The Suzanne |
| 0:04.6 | Venker Show is now going to drop three episodes per week. In addition to the main one that gets |
| 0:11.9 | dropped on Sundays, for those of you who are regular followers, you probably know that. |
| 0:16.2 | There's going to be two additional ones on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Shorter versions, real quick ones. |
| 0:22.7 | But there's just too much that I want to cover that I can't cover once a week. |
| 0:27.2 | And I also want to do, have a few, have fewer guests on as well. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm still going to have guests on periodically, but you'll be hearing mostly from me going forward. |
| 0:39.3 | So I recommend subscribing to the show so you get notifications with the topic of the day each |
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| 1:03.5 | You can do all of this at suzannebanker.com forward slash podcast. |
| 1:07.6 | And now on with the show. |
| 1:23.8 | Music slash podcast. And now on with the show. From the magnificent Midwest, it's the Suzanne Venker Show, where men and women are equal in value, |
| 1:28.2 | but wildly different by nature. Join us here every week when we challenge the culture's |
| 1:32.1 | hugely flawed narratives about men, women, sex, and love. From coast to coast and from around |
| 1:37.5 | the world, thank you for joining us. So, quick announcement, I am going to be doing a money and marriage series on the Suzanne |
| 1:48.8 | Benker Show. |
| 1:49.9 | And I have no particular order to it. |
| 1:52.2 | So I can't say it will be every Tuesday or every Thursday, for example. |
| 1:57.0 | But this is an enormous subject that I've been meaning to address for a long time, but with only one episode a week, my hands were kind of tied. |
| 2:04.5 | Which is why I'm so happy this show is now airing three episodes a week, for those of you who might have missed that announcement. |
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