My 23-Year-Old Wife Won’t Allow Us To Combine Finances

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🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:06.5	I'm brand new to the trying to get out of debt and change my life. I'm probably only been listening
0:12.5	you guys for maybe two or three months. And I come from a like a not wealthy backup. My father doesn't even have a retirement, so I've got to not wealthy backup.
0:21.5	My father doesn't even have a retirement,
0:23.9	so I've got to try to plan to kind of take care of him
0:27.0	when he can't start working or stop working.
0:29.9	And me and my life just had twins about seven months ago.
0:33.7	Oh, congrats.
0:35.6	Thanks.
0:37.3	But my question sounds from, I am trying to start me and my family off with
0:43.0	Babysep 1 of trying to get ourselves out of debt and moving forward, but my wife doesn't
0:49.4	fully feel on board to kind of change our living and things we're just doing fine when we're going
0:59.6	paycheck to paycheck.
1:02.0	So I'm wondering, you know, how do I kind of get her on board with this idea and help
1:07.7	figuring that whole, navigate that whole situation?
1:10.2	Do you handle most of the finances
1:12.2	benjamin in the house so she won't allow us to combine them so um she has her paycheck that pays our
1:24.4	mortgage um and then i am supposed to cover all of the other bills with my paycheck.
1:31.4	How old are you guys?
1:33.8	I'm 34.
1:36.5	How long have you been married?
1:38.9	Four years.
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