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Welcome to Women in Money Podcast. I'm Suzy Orman. Today I want to talk about financial abuse.

Now I am very aware and then in season one one of the ending shows I did was all about

financial abuse. But I really still need to talk about it and I need to talk about it because more

and more as I've been talking about it, I'm realizing how many women are actually suffering

from financial abuse and do you even know what that is? I know very well that you are probably

familiar with physical abuse, emotional abuse, you know, mental abuse, whatever it may be.

It has a black and blue mark. Oh, I've been physically abused. But what is financial abuse?

So let me just start there before I start ranting and raving about it.

Financial abuse is when you do not have any access to any money in any way within the

relationship that you may be in. So here you are. You're in a relationship. It was so great.

You might even be the wage earner. And very shortly after you're in this relationship,

you're not living together. Maybe you've even gotten married. Your credit cards have been maxed out

by your partner. Now you can't have any credit cards. All the money in your savings accounts

and emergency funds. Oh, they've been wiped clean. I'll spend by your partner. You can't keep

any of the money that you bring home because that check goes directly to your partner.

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