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I've been married for almost 30 years, and I'm 62 years old, and so is my spouse.

After we had children, sort of the division of labor, if you will, was I took care of everything but the finances.

I took, you know, the household, the children, everything.

And he was to pay the bills and has done that all of these years.

Unfortunately, I've recently learned of some pretty catastrophic, devastating financial information that, well, he's had three huge job losses.

They were all well-paying jobs. He did invest in the 401k. I'm not, I've never been sure about how much was in there. I think

it might have been, maybe $170,000. It's gone. Each time he's had a job loss, it's been a two or three

year gap in between because he refused to take anything other than an upper management position.

And I've learned he's spent retirement savings. During those years to keep you guys going.

What did you think he can I just ask when those timeframes were happening, where did you

think the money was coming from? Well, I asked him, and to be

frank, he's got a lot of major management issues. I've always pressed to try to have a household

budget. I was debt-free before I met him. I had accumulated $30,000 in retirement myself. And any time I would press it,

I became fearful because he would get terribly angry. But if you had to ask yourself, where did

you think the money was coming from? Did you have something in your heart that you thought,

oh gosh, we're probably on credit cards or we're probably on. Yeah.

Yeah, in my heart for sure.

But he just kept saying, quote, relax, quote, everything's fine.

Don't nitpick me.

We're fine.

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