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I guess I have a question about debt and merging everything.

I'm a new wed.

Me and my husband recently got married in December 12th, 2024.

And I didn't know that he wasn't as financially responsible as I thought um he has

I guess been more secretive about his debt I'm a bit more like open about it and he wants

the merge accounts but I'm not comfortable with doing it as a get because he's kind of been very secretive

and has lied to me about certain debts.

And I'm working on now using like your plan to get myself out of debt because I bought

a home before we got married back in 2023.

I have a car I'm working on paying off, which is supposed to be paid off later maybe next year,

and a couple other few debts, but he has many more that I wasn't aware of and some that I think

is secretive about still.

We're going to marriage counseling, but I just, I don't know how to be more comfortable

with merging our accounts together and fear like we'll be deeper in debt versus trying to have more assets.

Give me an example.

So let's clarify because part of the solution to the problem is you merging accounts because when you merge them, then you can see everything that's going on, right?

There's transparency there. So give me an example of what that deceit looked like. Was it, I asked him how much the bill was and he said it was 300, but really it was 3,000. Tell me an example of what that is.

Meet every dollar budgeters, Christy and Steve. They used to fight about money.

I'm the spender.

I'm definitely the saver.

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