Her Boyfriend Is $15,000 In Credit Card Debt And Now That His Parents Are Paying It All Off She Thinks This Is A Dealbreaker
A 25-year-old woman has been dating her 26-year-old boyfriend for 5 years. You might think that’s a long time to be with someone, yet she feels no need to move in with her boyfriend or discuss getting married.
She doesn’t think that they are truly prepared at this stage in their lives to make those kinds of commitments to one another.
Not that long ago, she accepted a job in a new city, which meant her relationship with her boyfriend moved to long-distance since he remained in the town they’re from.
The distance isn’t the major stress right now in their relationship though; it’s the fact that her boyfriend has been getting himself into some serious debt.
Her boyfriend wound up quitting his job a year ago, and when he did that, he had to pay back his job for the schooling he never finished.
In the next 3 months following his quitting, he said he needed a little break from everything, so he didn’t work.
Then, he got a part-time job, which was just 5 to 12 hours every week and it was not predictable at all.
She encouraged her boyfriend to get another part-time job since he had a lot of time, yet he refused to do that.
“His spending also progressed into reckless territory, like that of someone who was working full time,” she explained.
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“Unsurprisingly, his debt grew considerably over the year and he now finds himself nearly $15k in the hole between credit card debt and a maxed-out line of credit.”
“He’s gotten to a point where he asked his parents for help…but they are proposing paying for the entire thing – no parent loan.”
She was absolutely shocked to hear that his mom and dad were willing to pay off the $15,000 of debt her boyfriend is in, and she felt that was just excessive.
She doesn’t think her boyfriend is going to learn at all from his parents sweeping up the mess he has made, and that worries her.
Her boyfriend says he learned his lesson and he won’t make the same mistakes with money in the future, but she doesn’t believe him.
“I get that $15k isn’t the end of the world, but I just struggle with seeing a future with him where this difference in how we view money wouldn’t lead to irreconcilable differences,” she said.
She’s leaning towards this being a dealbreaker for her. Should she wait and see if her boyfriend really did learn his lesson, or should she move on?
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