Wisdom With Money Means Moving Slowly

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🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 126 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app.
0:07.3	Start budgeting for free today.
0:12.5	Normal is broken, common sense is weird, so we're here to help you transform your life.
0:19.7	From the Ramsey Network and the Fairwinds credit union studio.
0:23.0	This is The Ramsey Show.
0:25.0	I'm Dave Ramsey, Ken Coleman, number one bestselling author, host of front row seat, a big hit on the Ramsey Networks.
0:31.1	He is Ramsey personality that is my co-host today.
0:34.5	The phone numbers, triple-eight, 825-5-2-2-25. Sarah is in
0:39.3	Atlanta. Hi, Sarah. How are you?
0:41.8	I'm good. How are you? Better than I deserve. What's up?
0:46.5	I'm doing good. So my question is
0:48.9	that, so I am in a relationship. We are not
0:51.4	married, but we do just call each other's partners.
0:55.0	We're both unhappy.
0:56.4	I've voiced it.
0:57.2	He's voiced it.
0:58.2	And it's mainly due to our communication style and our lack and our differences.
1:04.3	Like for me, I'm more of a person like I love a clean house.
1:08.6	I love to be supported by like access service and going out
1:11.9	together. He's more of a homebody and he's really affectionate, but I didn't grow up to be like
1:17.2	an affectionate person. And when we do talk about issues, it does become escalated very quickly,
1:24.9	such as if we're not seeing out of the eye, he's quick to yell and
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