My Ex Cheated On Me and I Spiraled Financially ($169,000 In Debt)
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
| 0:04.3 | Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.6 | I was really close to, I was $300 away from being financially, or debt free, aside from my car and mortgage, |
| 0:13.5 | and then a bad life event, semi-spirling down, and I have recollected all of that debt back. So I'm currently, um, |
| 0:25.3 | including house and car. I'm 169 in the hole with, uh, about $20,000 in personal debts. |
| 0:35.7 | And to, um, the, the mother of my child, uh, cheated on. personal debts. What happened, man? |
| 0:49.5 | The mother of my child cheated on me with a guy that she was employed for and sent me back down to an unholy lifestyle, I should say. |
| 0:54.0 | Can we, can we, as we dig out of this, |
| 0:57.6 | and Jade's going to give you an ironclad path, okay? |
| 1:01.1 | Okay. |
| 1:01.7 | But here's where I want to start with it, okay? |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.6 | A real bad thing happened. |
| 1:07.3 | And what is my and going to be and it's my responsibility i want you to own i went and chose to handle |
| 1:18.5 | this bad thing in these ways i i did yes okay there's no doubt about that okay um that ownership |
| 1:26.1 | is critical for the next step. Yeah. Right. And so, man, I hate that that, dude, I wouldn't wish that on anybody. I hate that happened to you. And I hate that, like, your default setting was I'm going to go run back and make a bunch of bad decisions and unhealthy decisions. |
| 1:44.8 | And here I am. |
| 1:50.0 | And so that sense of ownership will be what gets you out of this mess. |
| 1:50.3 | Cool? |
| 1:51.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:52.1 | All right. Cool. |
| 1:52.2 | Same team. |
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