My Husband Is Okay With This, But I’m Not
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4.5 • 840 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
| 0:04.3 | Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.5 | I just have a question. |
| 0:09.4 | My husband and I have about $160,000 worth of debt, |
| 0:16.2 | and I really wish I had found y'all sooner. |
| 0:20.7 | We are on Baby Step 2, and... And I really wish I had found y'all sooner. |
| 0:23.7 | We are on baby step two. |
| 0:32.7 | And the house is 125,000 and we have some consumer debt of 42,000. |
| 0:33.4 | Okay. |
| 0:40.8 | And my question is, my husband has, we've been married for seven years, seven plus years. |
| 0:51.4 | And he has a separate account than mine. We have two checking accounts. And then he has an emergency account that he only has access to, and I'm not really sure how much is in there. |
| 0:56.6 | But it's, he does use it for emergencies and for like we have all of our vehicles paid off. |
| 1:03.2 | And, and they do need work from time to time so that has come in handy. |
| 1:10.2 | Okay. |
| 1:10.8 | And he's, he's kind of, we've kind of. from time to time so that has come in handy. Okay. |
| 1:10.8 | And he's kind of, we've kind of done this thing where he pays the house note and then I pay |
| 1:19.5 | the consumer side of it and he's wanting me to like just get in there and get us out of debt oh okay fast as possible and i'm like um |
| 1:35.4 | we need to put everything in one checking account right what does he say to that? He just says, well, I want you to have your own money. |
| 1:47.5 | And I'm just... |
| 1:50.2 | Is there precedent? |
| 1:51.6 | Like, is there a... |
| 1:53.0 | Can you see a reason for this? |
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