Should I Give My Misbehaving Spouse An Allowance?
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🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.5 | So my question is, is it okay for me to set financial boundaries within my marriage? |
| 0:11.6 | And if so, how should I do that? |
| 0:14.2 | What does that mean? |
| 0:16.1 | Okay, back story. So over years ago, my husband unfortunately lost all of his finances due to someone |
| 0:22.7 | else handling slash mishandling for them, and mishandling his finances for him. Um, so he |
| 0:30.5 | initially had to start from square one all his finances received. Um, fast forward to now. |
| 0:37.4 | He's been trucking from trucking job to trucking |
| 0:39.8 | job and there's always been some type of issue with the lack of mile, |
| 0:44.1 | it's the lack of pay, the hours, truck breaking down all types of issues. |
| 0:48.4 | So due to him being a high income earner, um, in the past, |
| 0:52.5 | I think what he's doing is being extremely selective and picky, but what jobs he'll take. |
| 0:58.2 | So I'm basically trying to see how I can help and commit to just doing something like |
| 1:03.3 | soccer, back room, even entry, like something like that. |
| 1:06.7 | And so he's able to do the thing that he wants to do, which is trucking, just because it's been three years since he's had a secure and steady job, |
| 1:15.0 | and it just put a lot of financial stress on me. |
| 1:18.3 | So he's not making any money because he's not working much? |
| 1:21.5 | Yes. |
| 1:22.8 | Why is he not working much? |
| 1:26.5 | He's gone for jobs. |
| 1:27.9 | That wasn't what I said. |
| 1:29.5 | I said, why? |
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