My Husband Spent Our Emergency Fund on Drugs

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🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	It's Friday, and this is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.
0:06.6	My co-host is Dr. John Deloney, Ramsey Personality, this hour.
0:12.0	And Angela is in Ohio.
0:14.3	Hi, Angela.
0:15.2	Your question for Dr. John and me.
0:17.9	Hi, thank you so much for taking my call.
0:20.1	I am a huge fan of everything Dave Ramsey.
0:23.2	Oh, my gosh.
0:23.8	I'm super nervous.
0:24.8	That's okay.
0:25.5	We've never lost a patient.
0:26.4	Okay, good.
0:28.5	So I'm calling because about three and a half weeks ago, my husband confessed to me that
0:33.3	he has a prescription drug addiction.
0:35.4	I had no idea.
0:37.2	I was completely blindsided.
0:38.9	So that very day, we found a rehab facility.
0:42.0	He's been there since.
0:43.6	He's coming home next week.
0:45.2	But in the meantime, I found out he had spent, we had an emergency fund saved of $30,000.
0:51.8	He cleaned it out.
0:53.2	He took as much liquid as he could get. And he put himself into credit debt of about $70,000
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