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The Ramsey Show Highlights

I Feel Morally Obligated To Pay Off Someone Else's Debt

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:08.3

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0:11.1

I just have a brief question for you guys, and that is I take care of my stepdad, and I myself have no no more debt but he has 13,000

0:24.3

combined between a personal loan from his brother-in-law and credit card debt.

0:32.0

And I've been working on the credit card debt for quite a long time, and I haven't worked on the loan

0:42.9

because I'm trying to get some help from him, and I'm not.

0:47.1

Why are you working on his debts?

0:51.1

Well, originally, when we started living together, it was one of those things where we kind of needed each other in terms of like I didn't have anything.

1:01.0

And I had the job, but he had the place to live and he had a credit card and things kind of, you know, spiraled out of there. We've had life events happen.

1:15.0

I got in a car accident a couple years ago. We had to put the whole thing on the credit card

1:19.3

because we didn't have, the insurance didn't pay out in time. So you technically don't owe these debts.

1:28.6

It's all in his name, but you feel a guilt because it was taken out for your benefit.

1:35.0

That, and he took care of my mother to her dying day, and I told him that I felt like I should do the same for him.

1:42.5

So you feel like there's no legal obligation.

1:44.4

It's a moral obligation and you want to be generous and just pay off his debt.

1:49.7

Yes, I feel that way.

1:51.9

And I'm kind of in the conundrum as well that I need to take care of myself and my daughter.

1:57.7

Yes.

1:58.0

So listen, bro, you don't, I'm saying this in a way that I always want to hold very tightly that we honor our parents, okay?

2:10.1

But their investment in us as kids is not some sort of 401K for them.

2:20.0

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2:26.8

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