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We've gotten started on the budget and everything.

We started using the Every Dollar App right away.

It seems like, though, that once we get, we've gotten things kind of ironed out in the budget,

but now it always feels like there's a fight every time we go to discuss the budget, mostly because she feels like I just make the budget and then go over it with her, but she always feels like I just make it and don't give her any input.

Okay, so you're the, you're like me, you're the nerd in the house, and she's the free spirit.

Yeah, I guess so, because for like the last six years, we didn't even do a budget.

I would just work, and she would take care of the bills, and so now I've kind of taken that role back on.

Sure, but if we were to ask you who is the detail organized person is in your house

that actually kind of has a love affair with spreadsheets, it would not be her.

No, it would be you.

Okay, that's my point.

Okay, so, you know, we used to do this long riff in Financial Peace University about nerds and free spirits. And one of the things we would teach

the nerds is once you lay the budget out, slide it across the table to her, and rule number

one is shut up. You're not allowed to talk. You're only allowed to force her to talk. Rule number two

is the free spirit must

change some things in your perfect little budget. Otherwise, it's not our budget. It's your

budget. And that's what she's griping about. Am I hearing you right? Yes, to some degree.

What am I missing? I guess my thing is because once we do it and we discuss it, I'll ask her, you know, is there anything that she sees we need to change?

And she'll be like, well, it's what it is.

And she'll just kind of go along with whatever we did.

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