My Wife Doesn't Want Us To Invest In The Stock Market

Ramsey Everyday Millionaires

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by SmartVestor.
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0:13.8	Up next we have Brandon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
0:17.7	Hey, Brandon.
0:18.3	Welcome to the show.
0:19.6	Hey, thanks for taking my call. For sure. Thanks for calling
0:22.0	in. How can we help? Well, I've run into a bit of a speed bump here as far as my wife. We did the
0:29.8	baby steps. We were in over $200,000 in debt, knocked that out in a few years. And now it's time to put money away, 15% of my income into, you know, mutual funds.
0:43.8	And she's just wanting to park it in a high-yield savings account.
0:47.3	And because she says she's scared to lose it.
0:50.0	So I'm just kind of curious the best way to go about.
0:53.1	I mean, I've sat her down.
0:54.5	I've said, hey, it's over the long term that's going to run its course.
0:58.4	We're going to, you know, become millionaires.
1:00.6	And it doesn't seem to stick.
1:02.4	I've kind of run into a rut where we're just putting money into a high-yield savings account.
1:08.1	And, you know, 4% is good, but it's not 12.
1:10.8	Right.
1:11.3	It sounds like one of, it sounds like two things or one of two things.
1:14.7	A, something happened in the past, and she or someone she knows lost money in the stock
1:21.4	market, meaning they took money out when it was at its lowest point.
1:25.2	Or her dad?
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