I've Been Financially Supporting My Boyfriend For Years (He Refuses to Get A Job)

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🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 128 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:13.0	Normal is broken. Common sense is weird, so we're here to help you transform your life from the Ramsey Network in the Fair Winds. Credit Union
0:22.4	studio. This is the Ramsey show. Alongside George Camel, I'm Ken Coleman. excited to have you
0:28.9	with us. We have a lovely studio audience today. Fantastic looking people. Full lobby out there.
0:33.8	That's fun. The phone number to jump in is AAA 825-5-22-25. Triple-8-8-25-5-2-2-5. We'll take your
0:41.1	money questions. Your work questions. They all kind of go together. We start off with Madison and Salt
0:46.4	Lake City. Madison, how can we help today? Hey there. I've been dealing with some long, ongoing
0:53.1	unemployment in my relationship.
0:55.7	My partner has been unemployed for two and a half years and most recently when taking him
1:00.3	through the finances, he kind of shut down, got upset that I was doing things wrong, but that
1:05.1	he didn't want to get a job because it would not benefit him.
1:08.3	I'd misuse it somehow.
1:09.3	I'm, my biggest question is. Okay. I hold of the question. Did I hear you say he's not been
1:17.9	working for two and a half years and he said he doesn't want to get a job because it's not
1:23.7	beneficial for what? I didn't catch that last part of that sentence. Of course. He said
1:29.4	you didn't want to get a job because it wouldn't benefit him that I would just misuse the money
1:33.3	somehow. Oh, wow. Can I ask another question? Why are you still in this relationship?
1:40.3	We have children together. Okay. But you're not married? Correct. Okay. You can have children together. Okay. But you're not married?
1:45.0	Correct.
1:46.0	Okay.
1:47.0	You can have children together and still not have this cohabitation resentment bubbling
1:53.0	up here.
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