I Feel Guilty Using Child Support Money

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🗓️ 29 March 2025

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0:09.3	So I have some guilt and pride around using child support money.
0:15.0	So I was in an abusive relationship, and by the grace of God, I was able to leave when my son was about three
0:21.9	weeks old. Oh my gosh, Sarah. I met my now husband when my son was six months old and he's now 12.
0:30.1	My husband and I had sat and talked and said, we don't want any money. We don't want anything.
0:35.0	We want nothing to do with him well the judge made the decision
0:37.9	that it's not our choice and it's not our money and it's for our son so we were just putting all that
0:46.0	money in an account um we had some debt and um in 2021 i lost my job and we needed four walls.
0:55.2	So we dipped into that account.
0:58.1	As of January of 2025, we are officially done with Baby Step 2.
1:02.9	We are completely debt free.
1:04.0	Oh, congratulations.
1:06.1	Thank you.
1:06.8	It's very exciting.
1:08.3	I'm really happy to be there.
1:10.7	But I have about $4,000 from that child
1:15.6	support money that we said we'd never use. And I'm wondering if I should just pay it back like a
1:21.3	debt and just keep going like if we were on baby step two or the connotation of the child support money in the first place
1:30.2	just killed me and I don't know what to do about it. So this guilt, Sarah, I'm just double checking
1:37.4	that the facts are correct. You didn't use this money immorally. It was more of a conviction that you
1:43.2	personally had with it because of who it
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