How Do I Not Resent My Husband’s Low Income?
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🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by YREFI. Refinance your defaulted private student loans today at YREFI.com slash Ramsey. |
| 0:10.1 | All right. Today's question comes from Hannah in Nebraska. |
| 0:13.5 | Hannah writes, I'm a stay-at-home mom with two kids under the age of four. |
| 0:17.2 | My husband is a high school teacher making $56,000 a year and he works 10 to 15 hours a day. |
| 0:23.4 | During the summer, he works a job where he only earns $1,000 a month. |
| 0:27.7 | I understand he wants to make a difference in these young people's lives. |
| 0:31.2 | However, we can't make ends meet. |
| 0:33.5 | I make all our meals from scratch to save money, but it isn't enough. |
| 0:37.4 | We have $45,000 in consumer debt and and we owe $80,000 on a helot. |
| 0:42.3 | We drive junker cars that are paid off. |
| 0:44.5 | My husband is very good at his job, but earns so little and has crappy benefits. |
| 0:49.2 | They only cover his medical insurance, so the kids and I are on a separate health plan. |
| 0:53.2 | If I got a job, my whole |
| 0:54.9 | salary would go to daycare. I'm grateful for all the blessings God has given us, but today I felt |
| 0:59.7 | something break inside and I don't know how to move forward. What do I do with the feelings of resentment |
| 1:04.8 | that I have? That is a deep one. What do you think, Jade? You said it you said it earlier john about math not given a what about you |
| 1:15.7 | right um and i think this is one of those situations where there is a part of what we teach which is |
| 1:25.2 | this method for getting out of debt and finding financial peace, right? |
| 1:28.4 | For those of you who are not familiar with it, it's the seven steps, baby steps. And the first |
| 1:33.6 | three ones are like humdingers, right? Because it's, you're kind of doing the scorched earth thing |
| 1:37.8 | to get $1,000 saved, then you're going, you know, balls to the wall, you're paying off |
| 1:41.3 | your debt except your mortgage. And then you're continuing that intensity to get three to six months of expenses saved. |
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