'Playing House' Is NOT A Path To Success

Ally is planning to move in with her boyfriend this summer and asks Dave if she should rent out or sell her house.

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[phoenix]

If anything happens to that relationship then she's gone and he keeps his house but she has nothing. Do not move in

[JOSELIKESFISHING]

good point tho, he wont marry her but wants her to sell house? that's not a fair playing field.

[Rashaadthegr]

$60K as a custodian AT 22? Even engineers starting salary is not always that much. Time to live in Ohio.

[Boss_allday]

Papa Dave! No moving in without marriage.

[rodrigofernandez]

No more free samples, buy the cookie jar 🙂

[kbcinmedusn]

Don't get it confused. Dave is not saying that getting married will solve all your money problems by it self. He's saying that when sharing finances with someone you love, getting married is the first step toward success.

[BarkalarGames]

A relationship that's not just based on lust and vanity will lead to marriage sooner or later. Typically within 1 - 2 years of dating. If a person that claims to "love" you seems to be avoiding marriage and doesn't seem interested in the idea, that's usually a sign of lust or vanity being the base of the relationship which will lead to failure. Why would a person not marry someone they claim to truly "love", yet do everything a married person would do with them in terms of shacking and fornication?

If you're going to do all of that, you might as well get married because you're already doing everything you would do if you were married except it'd be legal and beneficial. And why would you want to do such things with someone you can't even get to marry you? Do you not value yourself more than that? Think about it... Why would you even want to give yourself up sexually and shack up with someone you don't know loves you enough to marry you?

[The_Path_To_Eternity]

Wow David did not hold back. I like it!

[andattitude]

I don’t really get why people would call Dave a loyal Christian debtphobic for his opinion on things like this (living together before marriage, if leasing a car is a good idea, etc.) you know exactly what he’ll say

[McWeenyKen]

Did everything in the right order. Met a girl, finished post secondary, married at 25, then bought home and had kid at 27. No debt, no stress. Didn't stop me from being completely destroyed in the divorce 3 years later. Now I'm 40 and still trying to get back to where I was in my 20s.

[ilovelucyb]

He just want help on the mortgage she better keep her house 🙄

[StephanieBogart]

This is all true at least in my situation. I did it backwards 3 times! You’d think I’d have learned 😂 Don’t worry Dave, it’s not old fashioned. It’s legit. My 3rd husband and I managed to stay together and I can tell you it’s because we brought God into our marriage and He became the center. We still struggle with money aka student loans but we are on the right path.

[kevinb]

$60K a year as a custodian, she must be in the union!!!

[Retiredmco]

Dave is as always giving common sense to the senseless..

[EricSmythChrist]

The stats about marriage reflect disipline not marriage. People who have kids after marriage are the type of people to do well with money etc.

In other words

Having kids after marriage won't save you, but the discipline to wait will

[NicE-jqwv]

Most teachers don’t even make $60, 000 a year! WTH?!?!

[ceecee]

Tell it, Dave! If the relationship doesn't work out, one of you will be out in the streets high and dry! It will take an average of 5 years to financially recover. But wait, a custodian who makes $60k a year??

[hackedaccount]

No marriage. No living together. Been there done that twice! I am not shacking up. People do not sell your talents short. People need to get married. Someone has to end up moving out and they lose everything and have to start over.

When people are shacking up someone is taking advantage of the other. IMO.

There's zero protection in shacking up....can we say ROOMMATE WITH BENEFITS? That is what it is.

[KatieBellino]

She must work in a good paying district. 60k as a custodian? Our teachers don't make that around here.

[ChrisInvests]

Wow, this is the nicest I've ever heard Dave talk to a caller 😀👍