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All right, today's question comes from Jenna and Minnesota.

Jenna writes,

Should I help my boyfriend pay off student loan debt?

No.

I guess we can just end it there, but I'll keep going.

I know what you're going to say, so let me explain.

Still know. We both went to college for mechanical engineering. My parents covered my tuition,

but my boyfriend has over $125,000 in college loans. We both work good jobs and bring home a

combined income of $200,000, but his loan payments are killing him. He didn't want to burden me

with him and he wants to put our life on hold, marriage, house, and children until they're paid off.

He has about $15K in savings, and so this is going to be a long process.

I have $80,000 in savings and roughly $300,000 in stocks that my grandpa set up for me when I was a kid.

Should I help pay off my boyfriend's loans by adding an amount to his payment every month,

pay them outright, or do you think I shouldn't help him at all?

Should you cave to his blackmail?

That's exactly. I was going to say, he is, this is a, it's a red herring. It's a, it's a proxy.

It's a ploy. Yes. So, listen, kiddo, we tell folks when they get married everything becomes shared so you will have a hundred

twenty five thousand dollar student loan when you're married because your husband does he will have

three hundred thousand dollars in stocks that his wife's grandfather left her he will have

eighty thousand dollars in savings that his wife had before they got married.

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