My Dad Wants to Gift Us a Down Payment

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🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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My Dad Wants to Gift Us a Down Payment: Sarah is newly engaged and wonders if she and her fiancé should accept her father's gift of money for a home. - Dr. Laura: "The man you marry should earn the threshold he carries you over." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.
0:03.8	Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.
0:09.8	Sarah, welcome to the program.
0:12.1	Hi Dr. Laura.
0:13.6	Hi.
0:14.6	So I got engaged a couple of months ago and how old are you?
0:23.0	How old is he?
0:24.6	38 and 41.
0:28.2	Would this be everybody's first marriage?
0:30.6	Yeah.
0:32.5	And how long have you dated before the engagement?
0:36.5	About a year and a half or so.
0:40.2	Okay.
0:41.2	And so before we got engaged my dad so that he would help out with some like a wedding gift
0:50.0	in order to like start our lives, like for example, to buy like a house or something
0:54.2	like that.
0:55.2	Okay, stop talking.
1:00.0	You must be freaking kidding me.
1:02.4	You're engaged to a man who is not a man.
1:09.3	He's willing to have his girlfriend fiance's daddy get him a house, not earn it, not struggle
1:16.8	to build it, but be handed it and you want to marry a man like that.
1:23.6	Well, it's something my father wants to do for all of us.
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