My Mom Guilt-Tripped Me Into Co-Signing 2 Cars
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:10.1 | When I was around like 20 to 21 years old, I had a pretty good credit score of like 800. |
| 0:17.7 | And then my mom kind of guilt tripped me into being a co-signer for one of her cars and um |
| 0:27.4 | then the following year uh there was a second car that i was unknowingly signed into when we |
| 0:36.2 | refinanced the first car. |
| 0:39.1 | And I think about two years after that, both cars have been repossessed. |
| 0:45.4 | And the first car was, there's a judgment on that car and it's under my name. |
| 0:52.7 | Oh, boy. |
| 0:53.3 | And I guess. |
| 0:58.3 | And there's also a personal loan that my mom kind of made me take out around the same time. What do you mean made you? Yeah, what's that |
| 1:02.8 | sounds like? Are you against your will? Well, she guilt-trip me into doing all of that. Yeah, but you're a |
| 1:09.5 | grown person at 21 years old. Yes, of that. Yeah, but you're a grown person at 21 years old. |
| 1:12.7 | Yes, of course. |
| 1:14.1 | Like, I understand that. |
| 1:15.4 | But I guess, like, culturally speaking, it was always, you can't, um, you can't say |
| 1:20.6 | like, I've done so much for you. |
| 1:21.3 | I need you to do this for me. |
| 1:22.7 | And you just went, okay, fine. |
| 1:23.8 | Exactly. |
| 1:25.1 | And it was, like, nonstop. |
| 1:27.3 | So essentially, after all of this, we're like 20K in debt just on my mom alone. |
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