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Calvin and Chantha: "my husband won't let me pay our bills" | I Will Teach You to Be Rich Podcast

6 Aug 2021 · 0 min

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A YouTube podcast episode (Ramit Sethi’s I Will Teach You to Be Rich) featuring a couple, Calvin and Chantha, discussing household money management and conflict over who controls bills. Calvin wants to independently manage finances; Chantha favors combining household expenses and is concerned about high expenses. Host Ramit Sethi frames the issue as psychological rather than purely numerical and proposes exploring underlying emotional causes.

I wanted to be the man in the house. I wanted to see how much I can do on my own in the event she doesn't want to work or can't work anymore.
He's great, but he obsesses and stresses out over everything when it comes to money. I've always talked to him about combining the household expenses, but he's always wanted to keep things separate. Our expenses are pretty high and he's wanting to take care of everything until he came to me and says he keeps going negative after paying for everything.
Problems are almost never a math problem. They're much, much deeper than that. There's something else going on psychologically, something that caused them to get to this point. Why does he feel so bad about money? Let's find out the clues and we'll see what we can do together.