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Originally Posted by jhynesrockmtn
Sorry for your troubles and I hope that is the extent of it. My current boss and a friend of 30+ years found out his first wife spent over $20,000 on credit cards he didn't know existed. She had signed his name on everything. This was in the 80's and big money to someone making roughly that per year at the time. He sold his newer car, etc. and started working to pay things down. Relatively soon after that revelation comes the boyfriend. They are moving toward divorce and she wins a $5m WA state lottery and claims it was the boyfriends dollar that bought the ticket. The only upside for him was that he was able to get the debt set aside and force her to set up educational accounts for the two kids. Also his child support was pretty drastically cut. As others have said, out of control spending is an addiction and can be a symptom of deeper issues. Protect yourself. I've gone through periods post divorce 8-10 years ago where I spent through some savings. Never went into debt. Now that I look back I can see I was self medicating to a certain degree. Thankfully I could afford it and never touched my retirement accounts.
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That's a pretty good argument for the OJ option .... just sayin.