He Owes His Son About $10,000 And Even Though He Said He Would Give His Son His Car To Help Pay That, He’s Since Gone Back On His Word
Dealing with debt is one of the most stressful things a person can deal with. Waking up every day, knowing that you own someone or someplace a lot of money and can’t live comfortably until you do, is painful.
What’s even sadder is when a parent already having financial issues turns to racking up debt in their children’s name just to stay afloat for a while. Unfortunately, that is what one father recently did to his teenage son.
Over 20 years ago, while his kids, a son, and daughter, were still young, he got a divorce from his wife, their mother.
He says that he always had a good relationship when his son when he was little, but that all began to change when he started growing up.
When his son was 17-years-old, he came to live with him and his girlfriend. He tried to make a comfortable home for his girlfriend and son but quickly realized that he wasn’t making enough money to support them.
“I soon jumped from workplace to workplace and asked all my friends for money, which I barely was able to pay back,” he explained. “So, I started asking my son for money.”
His son began helping with the smaller household costs first, like buying a few groceries from time to time.
But then, his son started taking on more and more financial responsibilities. Eventually, he was helping pay some of the bills and even got a credit card to put expenses on since his dad couldn’t get approved for one.
He claims that this kept them afloat for a while, but he still couldn’t find a way to make more money. Then, at one point, he “forgot” to make his car insurance payments to the point where his contract was terminated. So, he created a new one in his son’s name.
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He said that he always asked his son permission before putting anything in his name and that he “knew what he was getting into.”
Eventually, his son decided to move out of his dad’s house and live with his girlfriend. Since he was trying to make a life for himself, his son asked that he start paying back the money he had loaned him over the years.
His son did the math and calculated that in all the years they lived together, he accumulated $10,000 in debt. He claims that he couldn’t pay his son that kind of money, so his son proposed that he gives him his car to put up for sale to cover the cost of the debt. However, he won’t do it.
His first excuse for not selling the car was that he needed it to get to his new job, which was in a neighboring city.
“He told me to take the train and bus and that there were cheap tickets any my job could help me get a permanent ticket,” he recalled.
“I told him that I couldn’t do that. That was at the end of 2021. I told him if I didn’t have the money for his debt until January of 2022, he could have the car.”
When January 2022 rolled around, he didn’t have the money. So instead of giving his son the car, he went against his word and still refused to give it to him, claiming that he needs it. They got into a massive argument over the phone, and his son’s girlfriend chimed in to tell him that a loving father would not do that to his son. His son hasn’t spoken to him since.
“I do regret my mistakes, but I think he made me suffer enough,” he added. “I miss my son, but until he apologizes for treating me like this, I don’t want to have anything to do with him either.”
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