19. “My husband has been promising that we’ll buy a house in a few months… for five years”
Money For Couples with Ramit Sethi
Ramit Sethi
4.6 • 124 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | With each year, my frustration keeps mounting because I feel like I'm not being heard. |
| 0:10.0 | This is not a joint decision to continue this backup indefinitely. |
| 0:14.1 | He made some jokes about me being his retirement plan and I have a bad feeling that it's happening. |
| 0:20.2 | I think that her attitude in general is negative at times. |
| 0:28.0 | Does she have a right to be negative about money? |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, she does. |
| 0:33.0 | I was exactly afraid that if I push, I will have a very resentful partner. |
| 0:38.0 | But seven and a half years later, I am resentful. |
| 0:42.0 | So there is a resentful partner. It's just not him. |
| 0:47.0 | Hi, I'm Ramit Saiti and welcome to the I will teach you to be rich podcast. |
| 0:52.0 | Meet Serena and Brian. Serena is a 39-year-old physician. |
| 0:56.0 | And Brian is a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur. |
| 0:59.0 | For the first three years of their relationship, they earned roughly the same amount. |
| 1:05.0 | But now Serena brings in $235,000 while Brian brings in $65,000. |
| 1:12.0 | Between the two of them, they have about a million dollars invested. |
| 1:16.0 | So what's the problem? |
| 1:19.0 | Well, for the last five years, Brian has been pursuing a startup that hasn't really taken off. |
| 1:25.0 | And Serena feels that the time has come to accept that the company isn't working |
| 1:31.0 | and that Brian should get a traditional job. |
| 1:34.0 | She wants to buy a house together. |
| 1:36.0 | You're going to hear a lot about that house today. |
| 1:39.0 | Brian actually wants to buy a house too. |
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