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A single mother called into the Dave Ramsey show to complain that her friends were not happy about her financial success.
She’s debt-free and working on paying off her home, but her friends make negative comments.
Ramsey suggested finding new friends as she should not be with people who tear her down.
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Recently, a single mother sent in a question to the Dave Ramsey show to get some advice. She said she’d followed Ramsey’s tips and was doing well financially, becoming debt-free with an emergency fund and a house that will soon be paid off. However, she’s not getting positive feedback from those in her life.Instead, the people she’s with at church and family gatherings complain that everything is expensive, make snide comments about haves vs. have-nots, and express their belief that those who own their home and have investments are rich, greedy, and benefit at the expense of others. She feels hurt by this type of talk and wants to know what Ramsey thinks she should do. Ramsey had some very blunt advice for this caller, but it is advice she would do well to follow. Here’s what to do if your friends criticize your efforts at successRamsey did not mince words when he replied to the woman’s question. “You need some new friends,” Ramsey said. “Shake the dust off your sandals and keep moving.”Ramsey described the negative commentators as “energy vampires, sucking the blood out of your soul,” and warned that this type of negativity is contagious because people often become like those who they spend the most time with.He suggested limiting time spent with those people based on the amount of energy she has to try to overcome their negativity and likened her situation to one where a former drug addict had to leave his cocaine-using friends behind to build a better life.Should you ditch your friends if they aren’t on the same financial page?PeopleImages.com – Yuri A / Shutterstock.comRamsey made clear that the woman didn’t have to be mean about leaving these friends behind, but rather that she should limit access to them. And this makes good sense if they’re making her feel bad about her successes. Real friends wouldn’t put someone down for trying to better themselves financially but instead would be e