“I Want To Trust My Husband, But He Wants To Get Rich Quick"

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 129 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:13.7	Normal is broke and common sense is weird, so we're here to help you transform your life.
0:20.0	From the Ramsey Network and the Fair Winds Credit Union Studio, this is The Ramsey Show.
0:25.6	I'm Dave Ramsey, Jade Washaw, number one bestselling author, Ramsey personality is my co-host today.
0:31.4	Open phones here at AAA 825-5-225.
0:36.7	Nicole is in Boston. Hi, Nicole. How are you?
0:39.3	Hello, I'm well. Thank you for taking my call.
0:41.3	Sure. What's up?
0:43.3	I'm in the situation where I very much want to trust my husband's judgment on finances in our future,
0:50.3	but we've hit like a rocky patch here where we just keep well he just keeps kind of digging us
0:57.1	into more and more debt in like the hopes that we'll get out of it one day with some this risky
1:02.2	real estate world stuff and I don't know how to dig ourselves out of that and like maintain
1:07.6	respectful marital boundaries doing that and I just my opinion kind of gets
1:12.0	thrown aside because I'm not as risky I don't want to take risks I'm not it's not the risk
1:16.9	it's the get rich quick right to get rich quick I'm not a fan of that strategy yeah so here's the deal
1:22.8	you're not called to respect your husband if every time he gets in a car, he drives it into a ditch.
1:29.5	You go, you suck at driving.
1:32.2	That's not disrespectful of your husband as a husband.
1:35.5	It's disrespectful of his driving ability because he sucks at driving.
1:40.5	So don't get this confused that somehow respect is I'm supposed to turn a blind eye to idiocy that's not respect that's just that's just enabling then when you give respect and you give a compliment for something that he actually does right we don't know if it's real because you also endorse stupid stuff by call it and call it respect. No, no, he can't drive a car.
2:03.6	He keeps running in the ditch. Honey, you need driving lessons and I'm not riding with your butt
2:07.1	until you learn out of drive. You suck at driving. That's not really, I mean, some version of
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