Dave Ramsey: Money is a REFLECTION of your values

Well, money is a reflection of our values, how we handle money. And that's another reason that it's very important because if your values are not aligned, you're going to struggle in any relationship, but certainly in a marriage relationship. And so you know, talk about the basics of money debt. I love debt and I use it all the time. You know, I want 0 down everything. I'm going to buy a 0 down truck, I'm going to buy 0 down stereo, I'm going to buy 0down couch. I'm going to put nothing down on the house. And you hate debt. Okay, we got a problem. We're going to have to work through this or we're going to have to. This is a deal killer. Okay, how about saving? I don't think I'll save money, you know, you know, get you some. I always thought you could out earn your stupidity. I tried that for years, didn't work, you know, so my wife however is a natural saver, right? So when I joined her club is when we started winning, you know, so bless her heart, she didn't know this going in but made a hard, hard life for her the first seven years. But the so saving and debt. How about generosity? I don't believe you ought to give. If you give, you end up with less. It's mathematically factual, which it is actually. But that short term thinking, that's a finite game instead of an infinite game. Again using Simon's premise on his book, the things we just talked about, how about living on? Are we going to live in chaos? Are we going to live with a plan? Yeah, I want to live with peace or chaos. Are we going to live with future minded or yolo? You know, you only live once. Thank God it's Friday Living for the weekend. Our marriage theme song is Huey Lewis in the news, right? I mean come on, is this us? And if it is, then you know, because this, what's this tell you anyone that lives short term thinking we know they're emotionally immature? Yes, spiritually immature. And so you're marrying someone or you're dating someone that's emotionally immature. And they're fun, they're always fun. But they're. But it's not fun in the long term because it brings about stress. The fruit of this is nasty. And so now do we have to be perfectly aligned on all those things? No, we just need to understand where the other person stands and are they so far over away from us that it's a deal killer? Yeah, because my wife is more of a saver than I am by nature. I had. Saving for me is an intellectual act, a spiritual act of my will. It is not a natural rhythm. Okay. She naturally saves everything. The leftovers in our refrigerator are grotesque. She saves everything to the extent that I can stay close to her on that. Then we've got harmony.