My Husband Is Freaking Out Over Pausing Retirement Investing

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

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0:06.3	Learn more at CH Ministries.org slash budget.
0:09.0	I just got a question.
0:11.5	My husband is concerned that we've paused our investments for too long.
0:17.7	He's nearing the end of being able to, you know, wanting to retire.
0:22.3	And we paused investing in like beginning of December to jump on the baby steps.
0:28.4	We've since 2023 paid off about 42,000.
0:32.6	All we have left is our house.
0:34.9	And did our emergency fund put together the three to six months.
0:40.0	How long is too long to pause investing?
0:42.8	Three or four years and you haven't gone over that?
0:47.3	You say three or four years?
0:48.9	Yeah.
0:49.4	You've only done it for, what, a few months?
0:51.9	Correct.
0:52.7	Did you say you've paid off all of your consumer debt already?
0:56.6	Yeah, 2023 is when we took out the first stupid loan.
1:01.3	When did you pause the investing?
1:04.5	December.
1:06.0	Like three months ago?
1:07.8	Yeah, I really wanted to.
1:09.1	We were like paying on it, but then as soon as we paused
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