I Can Only Ask My Husband About The Budget 2 Times Per Week
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🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. So I have been |
| 0:07.8 | religiously listening to you and your team every single morning on my drive to work, which is about |
| 0:14.9 | an hour and 15 minutes. And I have had gazelle intensity by myself. |
| 0:22.6 | So I've tried introducing it, like, to my husband. |
| 0:26.0 | And the problem is that we've sat down and we have looked at a budget. |
| 0:32.4 | I have the every dollar. |
| 0:35.7 | I am still working on assigning every dollar, but I've got the app for him where he's doing it. |
| 0:44.5 | We have about $95,000 in consumer debt together. |
| 0:49.5 | We're a blended family. |
| 0:51.4 | He has three. |
| 0:52.4 | I have three. |
| 1:02.6 | And the problem I'm having is that I am wanting so badly to get out of debt. |
| 1:10.3 | But I am the primary, like, breadwinner because he's a roofing business. and, well, we've had some issues with |
| 1:12.6 | hitting Ruth approved and it's just been really slow. |
| 1:17.9 | So there's a lot of inconsistency like with his, with his paychecks coming in and it's |
| 1:24.0 | causing a lot of resentment like on my part and probably toward him to where, like, |
| 1:31.1 | we went to counseling and we had to have an agreement to where I could only talk about the budget |
| 1:36.5 | for an hour on Tuesdays and an hour on Friday. |
| 1:39.7 | So that's kind of where we are. |
| 1:41.7 | And I just need to know what to do to move forward. |
| 1:46.3 | So one weekend, be a team together and how am I supposed to do this? |
| 1:53.8 | Jamie, can I ask, is the resentment from you coming from that he's not fully on board with the plan and you guys together are like, hey, regardless of who's brain the income, this is what we're doing, we're paying off debt as fast as possible. Is that the resentment or is it that he can't seem to keep an income because the work is so wacky and you don't really know what's going on there? Yes. Yes, that's what it is, like, because he still has, he's got a child that's in college, and then the other one |
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