My Shopping Addiction Is Ruining my Marriage

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Relationships

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:00.0	Since January, I've spent about $14,000 on shopping.
0:10.2	Originally, I ended up everything that I spent just to kind of give myself a shock of how much I spent.
0:15.3	And even after doing that, I'd go back to shopping again.
0:18.8	Who told Tia when Tia was young that she wasn't beautiful or she didn't look right?
0:28.9	What up?
0:29.7	What up?
0:30.2	This is John with the Dr. John to Lone's show.
0:33.6	Hope you're doing good.
0:35.9	I really, really do.
0:36.9	I hope you're doing well. And you've got a moment of clarity, a moment of peace. Maybe you're doing something important or not important or whatever, but I'm just super grateful that you're with us. Whether you're driving around or mowing or cleaning something or avoiding somebody or sitting in a coffee shop or wherever you happen to be consuming this, I just super grateful that you are with us we're talking about your marriage your mental emotional
0:58.2	health struggles with addiction whatever you got going on your kids everything that's what we
1:02.7	talk about on the show and i'm going to sit with you and we're going to figure out what's your
1:05.3	next right move let's go out to salt lake city and talk to Tia. What's up, Tia?
1:12.5	Hi, how are you?
1:13.8	I'm doing all right.
1:14.7	How about you?
1:15.8	I'm okay, just feeling a little nervous.
1:18.3	It's all good, man.
1:19.3	I'm not very good at this, so we'll both be nervous together.
1:21.9	Okay.
1:22.9	What's up?
1:24.2	So since January, I've spent about $14,000 on shopping.
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