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78. “I pretend things are fine, but we’re 2 months from going bankrupt”

Money For Couples with Ramit Sethi

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Do You Have an Ice Cream in Your Frozen?

I encounter this a lot. I'm talking about when people say one thing and then seconds later, they contradict themselves. This is way more common than you might think. Are you stressed out by $2,000 of credit card debt? In the grand scheme of things, that's not that much. We can fix it. On the other hand, are you totally relaxed about $200,000 ofcredit card debt? Because it's actually not that much at all. Your neighbor, Mary, has 500 K of debt. That's not good. You can hear a lot of playing with identity in this conversation. A lot of comparisons and rationalizing. Let's hear how Alex feels.

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