What’s mine is not yours
This Is Uncomfortable
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4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
When Lindsey Galbraith’s marriage ended over financial infidelity, she swore she would never mix money and relationships again. Then she met someone new. This week, we look at the aftermath of betrayal and how the consequences can last far beyond that one relationship. Plus, we eavesdrop on a money conversation between her and her new partner — the kind of talk that usually happens behind closed doors.
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“This Is Uncomfortable” is Reema Khrais, Megan Detrie, Hayley Hershman, Peter Balonon-Rosen, Camila Kerwin and Marque Greene.
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| 0:00.0 | In the spring of 2013, Lindsey Galbraith and her family were driving back to their |
| 0:07.2 | home in Minneapolis after a short vacation. |
| 0:10.2 | While they were gone, there had been a crazy storm, but they hadn't realized just how strong |
| 0:14.4 | it was until they got back to their house. |
| 0:17.4 | And a tree fell on our house. |
| 0:19.1 | I did not expect that sentence. |
| 0:22.2 | There was a huge silver maple next door and a giant branch of it fell onto my house. |
| 0:28.8 | As they pulled into their driveway and surveyed the damage, they saw that the tree had |
| 0:32.7 | collapsed the ceiling of her daughter's bedroom. |
| 0:39.2 | A tree falling on your house is never great, but it could really not have come at a |
| 0:43.9 | worst time. |
| 0:44.9 | Lindsey was six months pregnant and raising her two-year-old daughter while also going |
| 0:48.7 | to school and holding down a part-time job. |
| 0:51.7 | Money was especially tight because her husband had recently lost his job and was also in |
| 0:55.7 | school full-time. |
| 0:58.1 | And now, because of this tree, they would need to move into a rental house and figure out |
| 1:02.0 | how to fix their roof. |
| 1:04.2 | And Lindsey knew that responsibility would fall to her. |
| 1:07.3 | She basically ran the household. |
| 1:09.5 | I owned a home that I bought at the very, very beginning of our relationship. |
| 1:16.3 | And so I owned the house, all the bills were in my name. |
| 1:20.7 | And when he moved in with me, whenever I needed some money to pay whatever utilities or |
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