Help! My dad is dating a scammer!
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My first bit of advice is not quite a told you so, but this was bound to get messy.
I'm Rima Grace, and welcome to This is Uncomfortable, a show about life and how money messes with it. This week, we're answering your questions about money and dating. And don't worry, we're not going to do the whole who pays on the first date kind of questions. We're going to go to some more uncomfortable and outlandish places, from questions about dating a scammer to secret investments. And by the way, if you have a sticky money situation you need advice on, you can always call us at 347-RING-TIU, or you can email us at uncomfortable at marketplace.org. All right, joining me to answer your questions is one of my favorite podcasters, Sam Sanders, host of The Sam Sanders Show. Hello, Sam. Hi, my friend.
People might not know, but we go way back.
We do. Like more than a decade at this point, right?
Yeah, we had the same fellowship many, many years ago.
Yeah, I think you did it several years before I did. And then we overlapped a little in the office at NPR. Yeah, I kind of helped show you the ropes a little bit. I know. I remember you as this, like, larger-than-life presence in the office and just, like, one of the go-to people for advice. Honestly, which is probably why you came to mind when doing this episode, because you've got the hot takes. So many. You have so many. And about relationships.
I don't stop talking. Yeah. Heck yeah.
So this will be great. I'm excited. Would you say you're like one of the go-to people in your friend circles for relationship advice?
I think that people come to me because I do a really good job or have gotten to be better at it. And you're probably good at this too. We're really good at synthesizing information and taking stories and reducing them to like the simple negative truth, I think it's because we are reporters. And so I know how to listen to people and say, actually, it's about this. So that helps. I think that I don't always have the answer, but I'm pretty good at saying, you think it's about this, it's actually about that. One of my favorite quotes, I was with some friends, we're trying to open a bottle of champagne, couldn't get it open, you know, the little cork top, couldn't get it open. And then someone in the group goes, sometimes...
You got to twist the bottle, not the cork. That's it. Like, that's it. And so it's like, if I can have conversations like that, where I adjust either my or my friend's point of view, that's the real work.
What uncomfortable money questions are addressed in this episode?
It's like you're looking at the wrong place. It's over here, actually. So before we get into the questions, I'm curious, what is like the weirdest conversation about money that you've had on a date?
In general, I have, and this is with my current partner, on our first date, we talked about dead moms and bad breakups, and I got all the details of his divorce. And let me tell you something. First date. Divorce is a story about money, always.
Yep.
Always. And the older I get, because I'm 41 now, so I have a lot of friends who are either going through or are done with divorces. It's crazy. So I guess my first piece of advice is prenup, prenup, prenup. Yep.
We just recorded an episode that'll come out next week about prenups and how we all need to get them.
You really do. You really do.
I was thinking about this question myself. This wasn't a conversation about money, but I have a memory being in college and going on this lunch date with one of my classmates. And we were meeting up at, like, the student union or something.
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