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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Marrying my wife after letting her plan the wedding. It alone put us $30K in debt, We were already around $40K in debt...all from her excessive spending prior to us being together.

Talk about stupid...

But it turned better than I could have ever expected. We're mostly debt free now, and the only reason we have any debt is because I don't want to pay it off immediately since it's a 0% interest loan and the money is contributring to earning interest. So, I consider myself extremely fortunate for how it all turned out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, lucky/skilled, depending on how you look at it. But yeah, most marriages that start off with that kind of burden don’t last.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

The pandemic was our life saver. She was a traveling nurse and hospitals were throwing wads of cash at them for like 2 years.