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The Ramsey Show Highlights

My Fiancé Is So Frugal I Don't Want To Marry Him

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4.5839 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

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0:06.5

So my dear fiancé has some very frugal tendencies that border on being cheap.

0:12.4

And I'm wondering if this means we are incompatible or if it should cause me to reassess our relationship.

0:19.5

Oh, man.

0:20.6

Okay. So give me a couple of examples of what you consider

0:23.0

cheap. Or gosh, okay. Borderline crazy. Or borderline crazy. Okay. So it can be something small. Like if I

0:31.4

call him to say like, hey, can you pick up some avocados on the way home? I can hear him like

0:36.6

his brain is short-circuiting on the other end

0:39.4

trying to think of like the cheapest grocery store to get avocados. So it could be something small

0:44.4

like that or just bigger stuff like paying for dates and groceries. And so yeah.

0:53.2

You mean he wants you to pay for dates?

0:57.1

Yes.

0:57.9

I should probably give you a little more context, though.

1:00.6

So he and I are engaged, and we are living together.

1:04.2

Please don't yell at me, Dave.

1:07.4

And we also have a two-year-old son together.

1:09.6

So we've gone through a lot in our relationship. Um, early on, yes, he, he still pays for dates. I want to give him a stay. Well, he's not a, he's not a date anymore. He's a shack up. So it's a completely different thing. So, um, I mean, he's the father. He's the baby daddy now. I mean, come on. So, yeah. I think it's

1:33.8

too late to decide if you're going to marry the guy. I think you've already decided. You set

1:37.7

your entire life up as if you're married already. Oh, I agree. I think that's probably like

1:43.6

the root cause of some of our fight. I would say that

1:49.4

early on, like one of our disagreements was on living together. I wanted to wait until we were

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