My Fiancé Broke Off Our Engagement Because Of My Money Habits

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 127 minutes

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0:14.6	Normal is broke and common sense is weird.
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0:20.5	From the Ramsey Network in the Fairwinds Credit Union studio, this is The Ramsey Show.
0:25.1	I'm George Camel, joined by my good pal, Rachel Cruz, and we're taking your calls at
0:29.7	AAA-825-5-2-25.
0:34.1	Rita is in Louisville.
0:35.6	Up first, what's going on?
0:37.8	Hi. I'm calling to, I don't, I just went through a breakup over money, and I want to figure out how to heal from it and move forward.
0:50.5	Oh, so sorry.
0:51.6	How long was the relationship?
0:53.7	A couple of months, we had just gotten engaged. Oh, what happened?
1:00.4	So my, I guess, now ex-fiance is, like, he is a very, like, anti-debt person, which I agree with.
1:12.2	I had, I have a lot of debt.
1:15.2	I have a lot of, I have student loan debt and credit card debt, both from taking care.
1:24.2	I put everything on hold after my dad died a number of years ago, and I was taking
1:28.7	care of the family for a long time. And my siblings were still in school, and I was, I was 19 when
1:39.7	that happened and just sort of got into a lot of debt afterwards.
1:45.3	Yeah.
1:45.9	And so I have not, it's so money is like very emotional for me because I don't have a good, I don't have a good relationship with it.
1:59.3	And my family doesn't.
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