20. “My wife is going to divorce me unless I can stop being so cheap”
Charles and his wife, Michelle, are worth $10 million. He earns over $2 million every year -- but Michelle is on the brink of divorcing him because he’s so cheap. They’ve been married for 21 years and she’s sick of waiting to see if things will ever change. Charles realizes he needs help, but whenever we start to talk about money, he reverts back to old invisible scripts. This is a haunting, complex episode involving money psychology, relationships, and trust.
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Show Notes
Charles and his wife, Michelle, are worth $10 million, and he earns over $2 million a year--but he’s cheap. So cheap, he still insists on sharing someone else’s Netflix password.
Michelle has been pushed to the limit. Divorce is on the cards unless things change. She wants to start with landscaping the backyard, but I want to investigate the roots of this invisible script that’s costing him his marriage.
There’s 21 years’ worth of scar tissue to heal here. Let’s dig in.
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