I'm Fed Up With My Financially Irresponsible Boyfriend (Been Together for 20 years)

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:06.3	Learn more at CH Ministries.org slash budget.
0:09.7	So kind of back story.
0:11.4	I'm 43.
0:12.8	I have a 56-year-old boyfriend.
0:15.4	We've been together 20 years, lived together 18.
0:19.1	He's financially irresponsible.
0:24.1	He's 56 and he's got maybe $8 to $10,000 in retirement. You just said that as though you just figured that out. That was
0:28.8	incredible. Like we've been together for more than half my life and I just had this discovery.
0:35.1	How long has he been irresponsible?
0:39.5	The entire relationship.
0:52.5	Like, we've fought, we've talked about money, we've argued about money, we've thought about money, like, he didn't even put money into his 401k at work until he finally cut my foot down and was like, no, you're going to, you have to.
0:54.1	So. Well, this sounds fun. Yeah. Can I ask you another're going to, you have to. So.
0:55.9	Well, this sounds fun.
0:56.4	Yeah.
0:57.6	Can I ask you another question?
0:58.4	Oh, it gets worse.
1:00.0	Oh, okay, excellent.
1:02.2	You're going to, you'll hand you the shovel back.
1:02.7	You keep digging.
1:03.1	Go ahead.
1:04.4	Okay.
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