How Do You Build Wealth To Leave A Relationship?
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🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
| 0:04.3 | Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.5 | How should I be investing to build wealth, but also to leave an emotionally abusive relationship. |
| 0:14.4 | Oh, gosh. |
| 0:15.7 | How long has this been going on? |
| 0:18.5 | This relationship has lasted going on four years. |
| 0:22.5 | Are you safe right now? |
| 0:25.4 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:26.5 | It's no physical abuse or any of that, but it's just too toxic for me to stay. |
| 0:31.2 | I feel like I'm not evolving. |
| 0:32.1 | Are you guys living together? |
| 0:34.6 | Yes. |
| 0:35.4 | Okay. |
| 0:36.5 | Okay, so what's your timeline? On what? On exiting the premises? |
| 0:45.3 | It's not like, I would say I want to leave with definitely within the next like six months, six to eight months. |
| 0:52.3 | Okay. Tell me what you think. Tell me what's precluding you from going now, |
| 0:57.4 | because when you say, how can I build wealth? Wealth is different than I need first and last month's rent |
| 1:02.8 | to be able to get into my own apartment. Wealth is like a 10, 20 year journey. And so right now, |
| 1:08.6 | it's, hey, what is the next step I need to take? What is the |
| 1:10.8 | minimum amount I need to leave this situation? We'll get to wealth later. My dilemma right now is I |
| 1:18.3 | have, I did have roughly like $10,000 saved. I've recently paid off my car and got rid of |
| 1:24.0 | absolutely all my debt. Awesome. I'm waiting on my title on the mail. I currently have about $8,000 left in my account. Okay. The reason I didn't, my lease was up, the reason I moved in impairment because I was, my income at my job is quite low. I'm only making $17 an hour. So I was a little bit worried about getting an apartment, just due to the requirements. Okay. And so I'm trying to figure out |
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