Debt Can’t Be Your Normal Anymore

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:13.1	From the Ramsey Network, it's the Ramsey Show. I'm Jade Warshot next to me. Dr. John Deloney.
0:17.9	We're taking calls about your life, your money, your mental health,
0:22.0	all of it.
0:22.8	You can get involved in the numbers, triple 8, 825-5-2-2-5.
0:26.5	It'll get you on the line.
0:28.1	We've got Nicole, who's in Waco, Texas.
0:31.0	Nicole, how can we help today?
0:33.9	I am calling.
0:35.6	I have a son who is almost 24 years of age, and I'm not sure how to help him anymore. He has had a drug addiction since the age of 18. He's been in rehab, out of rehab, and he is living on his own now and has an apartment, but recently was put in the hospital for mental help.
1:00.7	And I just don't know how to help him because I was able to get him some help, but then he quits the program.
1:09.3	And I know financially he needs money for rent,
1:13.1	but I've helped him multiple times with rent,
1:16.0	and I don't feel like I should continue doing that.
1:18.6	I just want some advice on how to help him.
1:21.9	Yeah, that's, I mean, unfortunately,
1:24.7	I've had this conversation with too many parents over the years
1:26.8	of young men and women just that age.
1:29.4	And there's that balance between there's a real chance he ends up on the street.
1:36.2	And there's a real chance that he never learns to stand up on his own two feet.
1:42.3	And so at the same time, the greatest gift is letting him
1:46.3	learn from some of these consequences. And yet, when you've struggled with addiction for seven
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