Married for one year, Allison and Chris have a modest $44,000 income. Allison is a full time doctoral candidate and does TA work on the side, while Chris, who trained to become a police officer, struggles to find his career footing, currently working in a lumber yard, his fourth job in a year. The more dominant Allison has dumped all the household finances on Chris, despite Chris having previously stated that he is not very good with money.