35. “If we can’t stop fighting about money, we’re going to break up”
We met Ashley and Josh last week. They need to reconcile their views on finance before it breaks them apart. Ashley thinks that the man should pay for things like vacations and date nights; Josh thinks that spending should be proportional. But they need to pay off their debt before they can start spending on each other anyway.
Money For Couples with Ramit Sethi
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Show Notes
Ashley and Josh have come to a stark conclusion: That if they can’t manage to find some common ground in their financial struggles, their relationship has no future. They both earn roughly the same amount of money. Besides this huge roadblock, they see a path to marriage and children.
But they can’t come to an agreement about who pays for date night. Even worse, individually, neither of them has a solid plan for tackling their own debt.
Josh drives a, you guessed it, truck he can’t afford. Ashley leases a Mercedes. Both acknowledge the massive strain that having debt places on them and their relationship, and yet they do nothing about it.
Are they willing to make the lifestyle changes necessary to turn their financial future around? Let’s find out.
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