Should I Help My Irresponsible Mother?

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app.
0:04.3	Start budgeting for free today.
0:06.4	Here is with us in Miami, Florida.
0:08.4	Hi, Peter.
0:08.9	Welcome to the Ramsey Show.
0:11.0	Hi, Dave.
0:11.5	Thank you.
0:12.3	Thank you.
0:13.1	How can we help?
0:15.2	So I'm wondering what role you think I should play in helping my financially irresponsible mother.
0:25.2	You know, one of the things that it's weird about that question for a lot of us is when we face that,
0:31.6	is it seems like money is in a different category than other misbehavior.
0:39.3	If you changed out her misbehavior for something else, a different kind of misbehavior
0:44.9	or irresponsibility, how would the answer change?
0:50.9	It shouldn't, really, should it?
0:52.4	It ought to be the same answer.
0:54.0	So, in other
0:54.6	words, if we wanted to go extreme and say, how do I help my mom who's addicted to cocaine,
1:00.0	right? Well, it wouldn't be give her more. It would be help her break the habit and transform
1:07.4	her life. That's help. Help is not doing more of the bad thing.
1:12.9	Help is correcting the behaviors.
1:15.9	So, and of course, the person, that involves the person on the other end, wanting
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