8. “My wife is spending too much money”
Money For Couples with Ramit Sethi
Ramit Sethi
4.6 • 124 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I don't care about the numbers if I want to visit my family or if it's mother's birthday. |
| 0:10.4 | I know that we have the money and it's priceless to visit our family. |
| 0:15.8 | It frustrates me a lot because given the current circumstances that we are in, the only |
| 0:21.6 | one of the two of us that is able to pay for these kind of things is myself. |
| 0:26.0 | It's challenging when the discussion ends on emotional things. |
| 0:30.9 | It's difficult to respond, for example. |
| 0:34.0 | You don't want the best for our child and that it is not true. |
| 0:38.8 | I hate to have these discussions about money when he's so frustrated because I don't like this. |
| 0:45.5 | Natalie and Andres don't agree on money. |
| 0:48.2 | Now the short version is that she spends a lot and he worries about money. |
| 0:52.8 | But there's a lot lurking beneath the surface. |
| 0:56.0 | Just listen to this. |
| 0:57.9 | It's that feeling of I don't have enough to just pay for lunch. |
| 1:05.0 | I understand that fear, but you have a household income of around $300,000. |
| 1:14.3 | Welcome to I Will Teach You to Be Rich. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm Ramit Saiti. |
| 1:17.7 | Today's couple, Andres and Natalia used to live in Chile on very good salaries. |
| 1:23.0 | But now they live in Mexico and Natalia's income has gone down 35%. |
| 1:28.8 | Natalia is a spender. |
| 1:30.4 | She admits it. |
| 1:31.6 | If she thinks it's important, like visiting her family, then she'll spend without thinking twice. |
| 1:37.8 | Andres, who earns most of the family's disposable income, is the total opposite. |
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