Don’t Nickel and Dime Your Way Into Marriage

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🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0	This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.
0:10.9	Joining me today is Ramsey personality, Dr. John Deloney.
0:15.6	Leon is in Philadelphia.
0:17.2	Hi, Leon.
0:17.8	Welcome to the Ramsey show.
0:19.1	Hi, Dave.
0:19.7	Hi, John.
0:20.1	How are y'all doing?
0:21.0	Better than we deserve. What's up? Hey, I was calling today to see if we should allow finances to stop my
0:28.6	wedding plans. That's a broad question. Can you tell us more? Yeah, absolutely. So my fiance and I have been
0:36.0	together for a long time. She's desired to get married more than I have or more time than I have. It took our return to faith and my fiance's bravery during the pandemic to really open my eyes to marriage. Our opinions diverge in one area, and that's our approach to marriage.
0:58.2	I'm more pragmatic with my approach, and she's more idealistic.
1:03.3	In preparation to get married, I did some math and realized that in getting married, some of our expenses will increase
1:15.5	significantly, in particular, our health coverage.
1:20.1	My fiancé qualifies for no-cost medical insurance right now through the state.
1:26.7	And in the event that we do get married, or when we do get married, that expense will increase
1:34.4	significantly.
1:35.5	It'll go from about $104 a month to about $510 a month.
1:41.1	My employer-funded health insurance to add a spouse. It jumped significantly.
1:49.2	What's your household income? We're at about $62,000 a year.
1:54.1	You're not honestly asking us if her becoming your wife's worth $4,800 a year.
2:03.8	Well, it's a little more than that.
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