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The Ramsey Show Highlights

My Fiancée Makes More Money Than I will Ever Make

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Investing, Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:06.3

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0:09.3

So I met this wonderful lady about six years ago, and obviously marriage has come up,

0:16.4

and that's the next step of progression.

0:19.6

And my main question is I probably struggle with it more than she ever thinks about it.

0:24.8

But how do I be a dutiful Christian husband and a leader of the family when she makes substantially more than I do?

0:33.9

You can't. You have to make more money than her.

0:36.7

I know.

0:37.4

I'm totally kidding, man.

0:39.9

I know, I get that.

0:41.6

What is the gap out of curiosity?

0:44.5

So I've always done well for myself, or at least thought I did, until I met her.

0:49.0

I make about 200, 220.

0:51.9

Loser.

0:53.4

Oh, you're just like phoning it in, dude. I know. I need to work on tripling

0:58.5

that at least, but no, she's somewhere in the three and a half to four million a year. What?

1:03.7

What does she do? They own an insurance company and a myriad of other. I always tell her

1:09.9

her business empire. It's a lot of things,

1:12.8

but it's all related around insurance. Any chance she's taking applications? Because, uh, all right.

1:19.8

So I've actually helped out a lot with the different businesses and whatnot, because I'm in

1:24.4

financial services myself. Oh, nice. Well, here's the good news. She's not marrying you for the money. She's doing it because she loves you. So that will never be an issue, whether you make a dollar or a million dollars. It's chump change to her world. But here's the other thing. I've never read a piece of scripture that has told me, the husband must make more than the wife

1:45.0

or else you're not a dutiful husband. So I don't know where that came from. I'm sure it's just

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