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The Ramsey Show Highlights

My Live-In Partner of 12 Years Is Still Married (We Have 2 Kids)

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

Today's Ramsey Network app question comes from Ava. She says, my partner and I've been together 12 years and have two young sons.

0:14.9

We own a house worth $450,000 and owe $200,000 on it. I'm on Baby Step 2 and I've paid off a $5,000 loan and have $23,000 left on a car loan.

0:25.0

I earn $42,000 and think my partner brings home about $55,000. He has an estranged wife who asked him to

0:31.9

start divorce proceedings, but he won't because he doesn't want to pay for it lee i want us to get married but he does not want

0:39.3

to marry me we have life insurance on each other but he refuses to make a will i feel like i have

0:44.5

no choice except to leave him it breaks my heart for my boys but i'm afraid we are at risk of financial

0:49.6

ruin if we stay i paused the baby steps to start stacking up money in case I end up moving out.

0:54.8

I have no one else to turn to. So my question is, what would you tell me to do if I was your sister?

1:00.3

I would have told you to move out a long, long time ago.

1:06.6

I would have told you don't move in with a married man, don't have babies in my house with a married man.

1:14.7

I would have told you don't have babies with somebody who has so little regard for his ex-wife that he won't even honor her with a divorce certificate.

1:27.4

I would tell you to stay away from a man who refuses to make a will because that's a man

1:31.5

who is unwilling to face reality and who is telling you with his actions, I don't care what

1:40.1

happens to you after I'm dead.

1:41.5

I simply don't care about you enough to even fill out a piece of paper that says,

1:45.9

I want to make sure you're okay.

1:49.1

Actually, I guess I can keep going.

1:54.7

Your heart, if you were my sister, I would tell you,

1:58.1

yes, I understand your heart is broken for your boys,

2:00.4

but your boys have been living

2:01.6

in an alt universe and you've been the one who've been trying to have this fantasy household

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