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How do I protect my financial future and regain trust now that I know my partner has been very dishonest about his debt?

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How dishonest and how long ago did you find out? Give us that

detail. Sure. Sure. So I found out it's been three sets of dishonesty, but the major one was this

recently in December. I found out he actually has $65,000 in credit card debt. Okay. And finding this out.

How'd you find out? Yeah. Yeah. So I thought he only had $10,000. And so I... Hold on. Did you make that number up?

Or is that what he told you? That is what he told me. Okay. I am a very, a. I'm older, so like I, like dating, I hit the high points very early on and he told me he had $10,000 in credit card debt. So I was like, okay, that's workable. So he lied to your face? Come to find out, yeah. Okay. All right. Yeah. So I planned to, you know, I thought we were going to spend a future together and get married.

So my Christmas gift was, I'm going to pay off your $10,000 credit cards.

And so I went into his open desktop and found a spreadsheet that actually did not have $10,000.

It was $65,000. It was 65,000.

Okay.

And how long ago was this?

This was December because that was going to be my Christmas gift.

Are you all still together?

We are still together.

When you confronted him, what was that like?

Yeah, it was very awkward.

He just said he was very embarrassed, that he's not where he wanted

to be in his life, and he knows, like, I'm the person for him, and, like, he didn't want me to run

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