Hey everyone, it's Rima. So this week we've got a rerun for you all. It's one of my favorite episodes.

At its heart, it's a story about how our past can follow us,

seeping into our relationships and how we handle money. Hope y'all like it.

In the spring of 2013, Lindsey Galbraith and her family were driving back to their home in Minneapolis after a short vacation.

While they were gone, there'd been a crazy storm,

but they hadn't realized just how strong it was until they got back to their house.

And a tree fell on our house. I did not expect that sentence.

There was a huge silver maple next door and a giant branch of it fell onto my house.

As they pulled into their driveway and surveyed the damage, they saw that the tree had collapsed the

ceiling of her daughter's bedroom.

A tree falling on your house is never great, but it could really not have come at a worst time.

Lindsey was six months pregnant and raising her two-year-old daughter while also going to school

and holding down a part-time job. Money was especially tight because her husband had recently

lost his job and was also in school full-time. And now, because of this tree, they would need to move

into a rental house and figure out how to fix their roof. And Lindsey knew that responsibility

would fall to her. She basically ran the household. I owned a home that I bought

at the very, very beginning of our relationship. And so I owned the house, all the bills were in my name,

and when he moved in with me, whenever I needed some money to pay whatever utilities or bills or

groceries or whatever it was, I would just ask him and he'd give me some money.

Instead of having joint finances, Lindsey was in charge of it all. And when it came time to pay

the bills, she would just let her husband know how much he needed to chip in. But now since he

wasn't working, he gave her money he got from his student loan disbursements and his unemployment

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