A man shared how he found out that his wife has a credit card debt of about $60k but lied that it was only $19k.
Here is the story:
“A month ago I learned my friend gambled away all his wedding $. It came to a head on Friday as he finally confessed.
Through it all and talking about it, I was getting weird vibes from my wife. She confessed that she had a “$19,000.00” credit card bill.
I took all her cards and started going thru the accounts and the number kept going up, $19,000 bill was really —-> $40k, then plus another card $5k, another card $17k….
It been going on for over a year and interest just keep compounding. A few years ago she took $5k out of my oldest sons bank account and I called her out about it. We replenished the money but now this…
I have to liquidate investment accounts that i was planning to use for the kids private uni and I can pay this off but it’s really tight now.
I’m most upset that she hid it, lied about it, then lied again and then ultimately (only when she knew I had all her passwords) confessed to the full extent.
I’ve already cancelled all of her accounts, and she’s now only going to get cash but I really don’t know what to do after that.
She has no access to any bank accounts and I told her if it happens again we are getting a divorce. My biggest concern is that she’ll take out another credit card without me knowing and this will happen again.
Has anyone else gone through this and did their significant other get better or am I going to deal with this forever? How can I put a gag on her being able to get credit?
I also feel completely betrayed and I’m just totally deflated. I don’t think I’ll ever give up on her but this is testing/tested me.”
Editor’s note: What she buy sia, can spend until $60K…