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Read This If Your Family Is Shaming You For Not Giving Them Money
How to navigate shame and take control of your financial goals
Click, a video from the Dave Ramsey show popped up on my YouTube recommendations, My family is shaming me for not giving them money. Okkuurrrr.
Dave Ramsey is a controversial financial advisor that believes in living debt-free, period.
He helps people reach financial freedom through 7 baby steps.
This caller had reached baby step 2- she and her husband were finally debt-free. They had initially told their family about their financial freedom journey but now that they were debt-free her family was shaming her for not giving them money.
The agony in her voice was heart-wrenching.
The situation left her in a sense of perpetual turmoil. She sobbed, “I feel bad because, you know, they’re my parents. I don’t want to let them down”.
How many of us can relate to this? No matter how old we are there’s something in us that never wants to let our parents down.
There’s a desire to please them with your identity, relationships, career, and other aspects of your life. This can even extend to an overwhelming desire to please other people.
