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Brought to you by the every dollar app, start budgeting for free today. All right. Today's question, Jade, comes from Anthony in California. I'll read it to you. I got married three years ago with a prenup. My wife is a pharmacist. She makes around 200,000 a year. I'm a teacher bringing home 80,000 a year. She owned a home before we got married. That's worth $900,000. I know that the house is not mine, and I have no rights to it. I contribute $1,700 a month to household expenses plus $500 out of my check a month for health insurance. I'm not building any equity. I asked my wife if she would be willing to sell her house. I can't wait for you to answer this and buy a smaller house together. She said she's not willing to give up her house to make me feel better about myself. Am I wrong for questioning our marriage? Oh, my goodness. Can I get a bag of popcorn before you die? I mean, I'm just a lot to break down there. There's so much circulating around value and worth of the person based off of the money and the assets that they have. Obviously she's the one that made you sign the prenup. And my guess is it assumed that the prenup meant that he doesn't have the house? Yeah. She retains full ownership. I'll bet you that's what that means. Yeah. So I mean, she's the one that, I mean, I'm not, I'm not making judgment calls here. I'm just reading what the paper says. She's the one that makes more money. She's the one that owns the house worth 900,000. And she also knows who she's married to. And I mean, the dude straight up says, I have no right to the house. So that's what I'm reading. Wow. There's a lot, there's a lot of issues here. In many ways, it's almost like she wanted to separate themselves going into this. And because she fell, obviously, hey, he can't contribute financially in a way that I can. And then, but there's still like this expectation that he should be maybe contributing more. I'm like, this guy's a teacher. What do you want? And then when he comes along and says, hey, is there a way that we can just lower the temperature on our spending through this house, she's like, no, like go fly a kite. So this for me is, yeah, you should be questioning the marriage here. And if I'm you, I'm jumping into counseling, he needs you to be. Yeah. Okay. We'll get to the call a quick here, but I want to ask you a step further. Okay. What's your, you're coaching him. Okay. Okay. And her. Yeah. What do you tell them that they need to dig into it in therapy? She thinks she's better than him. Okay. Yeah. You're like, I'm like just calling a spade a spade, she's up here and he's kind of down here. Yeah. And it's all because of financial status. Create your free every dollar budget today, the simplest way to budget for your life.
