Financial Therapy: Struggling To Trust Again

Death, Sex & Money

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Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In their second session with financial therapist Amanda Clayman, a couple we're calling Cora and Garrett talk about their financial strengths and weaknesses, and the wall between them.

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0:00.0	Previously on financial therapy from debt, sex, and money.
0:04.3	In March of 2020, I started to get into online gambling.
0:11.2	I have a more conservative viewpoint on how we should spend our money.
0:15.8	At a certain point, I lost like $10,000 in like a week.
0:20.7	The whole situation was so shocking.
0:22.9	We had to have a series of really hard conversations initially where I was just like, hey, I understand
0:28.4	if you want to leave.
0:29.6	How has your trust in Garrett been affected by what has been happening with his health
0:36.0	and with money in your financial lives?
0:39.2	I guess I have been struggling with that a lot.
0:42.4	I don't even know how I feel about it.
0:45.5	Still.
0:46.5	Like, I feel like I can't really say.
0:51.0	I'm Anna Sail and today we are continuing our financial therapy series.
0:56.6	Moving in on sessions between Amanda Claimon, a licensed clinical social worker, and a couple
1:02.4	we're calling Cora and Garrett.
1:05.0	If you missed the first episode in this series, go back and listen to that before you listen
1:08.9	to this one.
1:09.9	There, you'll hear about the snow-balling crises the couple faced last year.
1:15.5	Both Cora and Garrett lost work and Garrett got into online gambling.
1:20.7	Then he lost lots of money and spiraled into despair and eventually tried to kill himself.
1:26.5	And I just want to pause here to say if you are struggling with your mental health right
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