“My Husband Wants To Get Rich Quick”
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🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
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| 0:06.7 | I'm in the situation where I very much want to trust my husband's judgment on finances in our future, |
| 0:12.6 | but we've hit like a rocky patch here where we just keep, well, he just keeps kind of digging us into more and more debt in the, |
| 0:21.8 | in like the hopes that we'll get out of it one day with some just risky real estate world stuff. And I don't know |
| 0:27.8 | how to dig ourselves out of that and like maintain respectful marital boundaries doing that. |
| 0:32.6 | And I just, my opinion kind of gets thrown aside because I'm not as risky. I don't want to take risks. |
| 0:38.4 | Well, it's not the risk. It's the get rich quick, right? |
| 0:41.5 | The get rich quick. I'm not a fan of that strategy. |
| 0:44.2 | So here's the deal. You're not called to respect your husband if every time he gets in a car, |
| 0:49.6 | he drives it into a ditch. You go, you suck at driving. |
| 0:57.7 | That's not disrespectful of your husband as a husband. |
| 1:02.1 | It's disrespectful of his driving ability because he sucks at driving. |
| 1:07.6 | So don't get this confused that somehow respect is I'm supposed to turn a blind eye to idiocy. |
| 1:09.2 | That's not respect. |
| 1:10.6 | That's just enabling. |
| 1:14.0 | Then when you give respect and you give a compliment for something that he actually does |
| 1:17.9 | right, we don't know if it's real because you also endorse stupid stuff by call it and call |
| 1:23.1 | it respect. |
| 1:24.3 | No, no, he can't drive a car. |
| 1:26.0 | He keeps running in the ditch. |
| 1:26.9 | Honey, you need driving lessons and I'm not riding with your butt until you learn out of drive. You suck at driving. That's not really, I mean, some version of that, nicer than that, is not disrespectful. That's not disrespecting the position of that you love your man, you love your husband, you think he's a good |
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