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My father and grandfather passed away and I've inherited what my father would have received.

My husband and I are always arguing because I don't want to touch the money unless we purchase a house or invest it to secure our family's future.

We are not responsible when it comes to money. We have

saved an emergency fund of $10,000 and in less than seven months it was gone. My husband has always

wanted to start a business and now that we have a cushion, he wants to quit his job. I asked him to

build some of some clientele before quitting his job because I know that he will use the inheritance

to pay our bills and living expenses and I'm not okay with this. How do we move forward?

Well, I think Grace has a lot of wisdom here. She's first of all self-aware to say we are not

responsible with money. And then she says, I know he'll use this money to basically just live our life. And

that starting this business is not smart. He's got to build some clientele. And I would agree with that,

that you shouldn't just up and quit your job and then hope because you've got this fund over here

that you can blow. That's right. But the problem is grace is that there's obviously been a

pattern here that's occurred with how you guys live with money, the fact that you saved 10,000,

which is great, but then you spent it all. So the pattern of money is what needs to be addressed.

And so that can be, you know, pattern that you have, that your husband has. But either way,

that's the core of the issue here, is that

the way you guys have handled money in the past will repeat itself unless you guys change

course. And so that's what has to be addressed, in my opinion. Yeah, but how do we move forward?

It's more relational than it is financial. We don't know the amount of the inheritance. We don't

know if they have debt, their income, all of that. But I would hit pause on touching this inheritance for a long time

until we're on the same page. Yep. And the value system, that's what always gets couples. That's

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