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The Ramsey Show Highlights

She Doesn’t Depend on Her Husband and Lives Paycheck-to-Paycheck

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

Hi, my question is, is how can I say from our retirement when I'm basically living paycheck to paycheck?

0:13.0

Okay. Why are you living paycheck to paycheck?

0:17.0

Well, I am 51 years old. I work blue collar electrician, and I am married, but with my debt, I have a debt unofficially

0:29.0

at 55,000, officially 60,000.

0:33.5

And I have three grandbabies, and I'm just trying to pay my family.

0:37.9

How do you have officially or unofficially?

0:40.2

I don't know what's that mean.

0:43.3

Unofficially, I have right at $55,000 because I just purchased a new vehicle in November.

0:49.7

Officially is because I owe my husband about $6,000.

0:54.9

What? How do I owe my husband about $6,000. What?

0:55.8

How do you owe your husband?

1:00.6

Your ex-husband or your husband?

1:03.2

No, sir.

1:04.0

My husband, we've been married 17 years, been together 20.

1:07.7

Reader's Digest version is the way I was raised in past relationships, I do not depend

1:13.4

on anyone financially. How's that working for you? That obviously sucks. Yeah, it's stressful. It's a

1:20.3

terrible way to live. It's a horrible plan. Absolutely. I agree. I just can't get myself to my and my husband doesn't complain he doesn't

1:29.9

he doesn't try to push me you know he always said don't worry about it but I kind of use him

1:34.8

he's pretty tolerant or terrified of you he must be scared of you hey Tammy we can give you all the

1:43.9

math and all the professional guidance and all that,

1:47.5

but you're going to have to have a heart change. This thing's just going to crash. And you see

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