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Erica in Kentucky. Yeah, she says, my husband runs a landscaping company that's owned by his father.

He's been told for years that he'll be taking over the business soon and he does everything in the

business except collect the checks and send

the invoices. He has put in a ton of time and invested a lot of money into this business,

but he makes the same hourly wage as the other employees on payroll. He's trying to be patient,

but with the low pay and amount of work that he has put in, it doesn't add up for me and personally, I think he's being used.

His dad is now trying to talk him into buying equipment with debt to invest into the business he doesn't yet own.

I'm stuck in the middle and seem to have no say because he trusts his family's promises.

How can I best support my husband while also keeping things cordial in the family?

You can't.

Okay, so in Genesis it says a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

And that's where the old-time preacher would say, leave and cleave.

You leave your father and mother, and you cleave, an old English term, that became part of the biblical lingo because of King James

version of the Bible, but you leave your parents and cling to your spouse. Your husband

has not done that. You have a marriage problem. I agree.

He's still married to his daddy.

100%.

Whether they're intending to use him or not, it's not a fair situation.

Just reading what you've wrote, there's nothing fair here.

If he's doing a job and it's above and beyond what other workers are being paid for the job that

they're doing. Yeah, that's unfair. Now, there is something to be said for. But we can't even

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