<prompt> Human: My fiancee and I are 23 years old; Im in graduate school, making 24kyear on a research assistant stipend. My fiancee recently finished her undergraduate degree and got a pretty decent job in her field, making 34kyear. However, she got very stressed out with the number of hours she was working 50 hours per week at work, plus another 25 per week at home. After about a month, she started getting really bad anxiety and began to have panic attacks, and decided to leave her job due to mental health reasons. Since then, shes been looking for many part-time jobs, but hasnt heard back on any of them and most of them pay 10-11hr. Additionally, shes wanting to go back to graduate school next year and complete a masters degree in a field that pays about the same as her undergraduate field hint: neither pays well.I want her to be happy and I want her to be able to go to graduate school, but I dont know if we can afford it. Heres our finances:My income: 1750month after taxesRent: 850monthElectric: 75monthWatersewagetrash: 40monthCableinternet: 190month bundle pricing just ended, were going to get this cost down in the next weekGroceries: 300monthFast food: 300month not my doing...Gas: 100monthClothes: 50monthHobbies: 50monthMiscellaneous books, school expenses, wedding expenses, etc: 300monthCarrenters insurance: 200monthExpenses total: 2450monthSo, on average, were in the hole about 700month. I have about 32k saved up, but I already blew through a couple thousand of that when I was supporting both of us on my income before her job started. Tuition for her degree would be about 15k over the course of 2 years. If we stay at 700 in the hole each month, thats about 17k that wed be out over the next 2 years, plus the 15k in tuition for her degree. Basically, if she goes back to graduate school, we will have to burn through all the money Ive saved up, and be left with almost nothing in 3 years time.I want to be supportive of her, but looking at this pragmatically, I dont see how we can do this. Im not sure what advice Im expecting, but my head has been spinning for the past few weeks and I dont know what to do. Does anyone have any sort of advice?  <response>: I want to be supportive of her, but looking at this pragmatically, I dont see how we can do this. Im not sure what advice Im expecting, but my head has been spinning for the past few weeks and I dont know what to do. Does anyone have any sort of advice?You should be supportive of her, supporting each other is the basis of all successful marriages. That being said, support is a two-way street. 300 per month on fast food is absurd. I would not tolerate my fiance doing that while we are struggling financially. Does her future job prospects after grad school offer a better job outlook in terms of your fiances happiness? If its still low-paying and she she still ends up hating the working experience, youre essentially throwing 15k down the drain for a degree that wont improve her salary or her level of satisfaction with her job. The good news is that you have a large cash cushion to fall back on now. You have some time before youre really going to be in a financial crisis, but you need to have a conversation with her fiance about long term plans to see if her current degree field is the best decision for her to proceed with. If not, she needs to really work on finding something that can help the two of you out financially. 