9. “I hid thousands of dollars of credit card debt from my husband”
Money For Couples with Ramit Sethi
Ramit Sethi
4.6 • 124 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I was running late from work and showed up at the office and she was having a conversation |
| 0:07.5 | with him and the first thing he was talking about as I sat down was how to manage credit |
| 0:13.4 | card debt. |
| 0:14.8 | Now that she had $10,000 of the credit card debt and I was like, you have $10,000 of credit |
| 0:18.9 | card debt. |
| 0:19.9 | I thought I could fix it for a long time. |
| 0:24.3 | It kept telling myself, why bring somebody else into this space when it's so awful? |
| 0:28.3 | I don't want anybody else to feel like this. |
| 0:31.8 | I just kind of felt like my trust was rock for those first two weeks, like I just kind |
| 0:38.1 | of felt violated. |
| 0:39.1 | And it wasn't even my money. |
| 0:40.7 | If we want to have a family together and grow together, like, this can't happen anymore. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm Ramit Sethi and this is the I will teach you to be rich podcast. |
| 0:52.0 | My guests today are Dan and Jordan. |
| 0:55.2 | Jordan earns $125,000 a year and Jordan earns $60,000 a year. |
| 1:00.6 | And for the most part, I don't really think about money that much or at least that's |
| 1:05.7 | what Dan thought right up until the moment when he discovered Jordan was keeping $10,000 |
| 1:12.5 | in credit card debt from him. |
| 1:15.5 | And it wasn't the first time. |
| 1:17.5 | Let's listen in. |
| 1:18.5 | We were meeting with our financial advisor for the first time and had shared it in that |
| 1:24.3 | space. |
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