The divorce didn't happen until I was in this journey of paying off my debt.

So during that almost three years, I got married, went through an abusive marriage,

then filed for a divorce in that process.

So before I paid off my debt and right before I paid off my debt and was about to be debt

free, actually, I ended up having to pay my abusive husband a settlement.

So like all this stuff people think it's like so linear.

Like you figure it out.

You're on your way.

And it's not like that.

It's a lot of stops and restarts in the process.

But I tell you, because I was in this process of paying off my debt and taking control of my money,

it made that financial hit from all the things that happened a lot easier to sustain and

recover from. I think a lot of things tie into the mindset shift that happens when you start

to take control of your money because yeah stuff is going to come up

but it's how you're able to respond in those situations even though i had to pay for my divorce

i still was able to pay off nearly a million dollars in debt in under three years in spite of

not because of the things that I have.

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