Life Happens — Don’t Let It Wreck Your Finances

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:11.5	From the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions, it's the Ramsey show, where we help people build wealth, do work that they love and create actual amazing relationships.
0:24.8	Rachel Cruz, number one bestselling author, host of the Rachel Cruz show and Ramsey
0:29.0	Personality.
0:29.5	My daughter is my co-host today.
0:31.9	Open phones at AAA 825-5-225.
0:37.0	Mary is in Canada.
0:38.3	Hi, Mary.
0:39.0	Welcome to the show.
0:41.3	Hi, thank you for having me.
0:44.0	Sure.
0:44.6	What's up?
0:46.4	So I'm in a situation where I've been married and my husband lost his job about two years ago and there's been a bunch of different circumstances that leading me to think that unfortunately this relationship might not work out.
1:04.0	So in preparing for that because we do have some debt that accumulated, especially in the last two years.
1:12.1	I'm just kind of wondering, like, should I pay off some of this debt before we officially
1:17.1	separate to make things easier or how to proceed with that?
1:25.5	Okay.
1:26.7	So what's going on with him um well he was he lost his job two years ago um he took that
1:37.8	very very hard and it affected his mental health significantly and he's been really struggling with that,
1:45.4	and he's been trying to support him.
1:48.5	Unfortunately, in dealing with that,
1:52.8	some of his choices have been not the correct ones,
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