This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

Brett is in Aiken, South Carolina.

He's joining us up next.

Brett, welcome to the show.

Hey, guys, thank you very much.

I'm calling today.

Yeah, I'm calling today.

I'm 28 years old.

Just got my first really, you know, good paying job, doubled my salary.

Awesome.

And we are still on step two of paying off our debt.

We have a bit.

But my wife, she really, she has anxiety. She's on medicine,

but the thought of having less than $10,000 in our savings account really makes her anxious.

How would you recommend I pay off the debt we have while finding this balance with my wife's anxiety.

The anxiety circling around that that dollar amount is not related to the dollar amount.

It's related to a story or a narrative that her body's responding to.

So when people most of the time, not always, not always, most of the time, anxiety results from

a being amongst people or disconnected from people.

It's a relationship issue.

It's your body sounding an alarm that we are disconnected from relationships or we're unsafe

in relationships or somebody finds himself unsafe, which is a perspective she holds right now, or they're in a situation where they have no control.

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