Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. Dylan is in Orlando. Hi, Dylan. How are you?

Hey, Dave. Thanks so much for taking my call. Sure. What's up? So I've worked really hard,

and I've sacrificed a lot to pay my way from school. I've got one class left from my bachelor's,

and I plan to go on to attain my master's degree in the state of Florida is a hundred fourteen thousand dollars to me that's a scary amount of debt and

without waiting basically you know ten years to have kids buy a house get married

any of those things do you have any thought on how to minimize this debt or

is it is it even a good idea to get into and I can provide background on each of our finances as well, if needed.

Yeah.

When are you planning to get married?

I'd like to get married in probably two and a half to three and a half years.

Why so long?

Well, we've had a few ups and downs in our relationship,

and it's been going pretty well.

But I also want her to get some school under her belt before we go and figure out some, you know,

other financial things before jumping into that with both feet.

And I kind of want to have her grow with God a little bit more.

My relationship with God's a little bit stronger, and, you know, her and I are growing in the faith together. But I kind of want her to get to a good point with God and with the idea of

marriage before jumping into marriage, because I wanted to have a chance to really succeed

rather than fail, like, more than 50% of marriage. Okay. So, Dylan, I hear you saying that

you've got a, you've got a point, you, you want her to be somebody different. You want her to grow with God. A little bit.

I just want her to have an opportunity to grow with God rather than, because she hasn't had a chance to really meet God, only except for when she kind of met me.

Is she a Christian person? She's a Christian person? And you've been with her two years?

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