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🗓️ 16 March 2026

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:13.4	Normal is broken. Common sense is weird. So we're here to help you transform your life from the Ramsey network in the Fairwinds credit union
0:22.5	studio this is the Ramsey show the phone number is triple eight eight two five five two two
0:28.8	five alongside george camel i'm ken coleman excited to have you with us we get it started off right now
0:34.4	with mary in dallas texas mary we help? Hey, thank you for having me.
0:41.3	So I've been stuck in kind of like a situation where I really, I'm newly married and I don't
0:50.5	believe in date and I really love what you guys preach.
0:55.0	I'm trying to get my husband on board.
0:57.2	He has, when we got married, he has, like, over $35,000 in date, and that's okay.
1:04.0	So I was trying to encourage him to get out of date, use my salary to pay his date, but he currently lost his job in last year,
1:15.7	and he has no motivation in trying to find a new job. So I'm always trying to, like, my money,
1:21.6	all I do is just pay bills, mortgage, and by the time I'm done paying, there is nothing left.
1:26.6	So it just feels like I'm never getting ahead.
1:29.3	Wow. I'm so sorry, Mary. I mean, I can think of one way to stay motivated, maybe providing for your
1:36.1	new wife. Is that not on his radar? Providing for his new wife? You? You said you just got married to this guy. He doesn't have a wife. You!
1:46.9	You said you just got married to this guy.
1:47.9	He doesn't have a job.
1:51.3	You're struggling to pay bills, and you say he has no motivation to work.
1:55.0	Yeah, he lost his job, so his excuse is like, oh, I can't. Did he get fired?
1:55.9	What happened?
1:56.5	Is he in a depressive state because of this?
1:59.7	Yeah, he got fired, and he's kind of like really
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