66. “I’m marrying him in 1 month—but our finances are terrifying me”

Money For Couples

Ramit Sethi

Relationships, Society & Culture, Investing, Business

4.6 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Beth and John are worth about $800k combined. They came to me a month before their wedding—in fact, by the time this goes live, they’re husband and wife (hopefully). The trouble is that they’ve never really talked about money, that she’s afraid of being a deadbeat partner… and they both want a prenup. Now, it’s a little too late for a prenup, but we can help them in other ways. The big day, looming large in their lives, has revealed some serious issues. Beth wants to—NEEDS to—leave her job, a role that’s costing her mental health dearly. But she’s terrified she’ll just be a financial burden to John. Will Beth and John be able to find common ground before they start their marriage? Listen in to find out. Connect with Ramit Website Instagram Twitter Facebook YouTube Linkedin If you and your partner have a money issue and you want my help, I occasionally select a couple to work with, free of charge. Apply for my help here. Produced by Crate Media.

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0:00.0	Before we get to today's episode, you know I'm out there buying a bunch of different
0:04.0	tools and little gadgets to try to find out little ways to make my life more convenient.
0:09.6	This Saturday, I want to share three of my favorites.
0:12.2	Here's one of them.
0:13.2	I'm going to tell you what it is on this issue of my podcast newsletter and each of these
0:18.4	three tools is under $25.
0:21.4	So to find out the three tools I use that make my life more convenient, much easier, go
0:25.9	to IWT.com slash podcast newsletter, you can only get this issue at IWT.com slash podcast
0:33.6	newsletter.
0:34.6	I've worked really hard to try to keep up, but I still am really afraid that it still
0:48.3	won't be good enough.
0:50.5	I'm worried that John would come to resent me someday.
0:54.1	Like I feel bad when John has to pay for stuff because I can't.
1:02.2	I didn't want to be a burden.
1:05.5	Is this tough to talk about?
1:07.5	Yeah, avoidance is a huge tactic for me and has been a previous financial tactic for
1:13.4	me for a while.
1:16.1	John did try.
1:18.1	Like we would we would talk about finances.
1:21.1	I just didn't I didn't have the ability to comprehend a lot of times.
1:25.5	It also felt really overwhelming to be coming from a place of former scarcity to now feeling
1:33.1	like I have to learn a bunch of new rules.
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