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“I found out he took out second and third mortgages on our house and took out multiple credit cards in my name without my knowledge. Our cars were repossessed (two different cars within eight years), and our house went into foreclosure twice before his sister rescued him and brought the mortgage payments and taxes up to date. I auto-deposited my paycheck from my $80k job, and he said he was making payments on my student loan. He wasn’t. He hadn’t paid my loan in over a year. The final straw was when he borrowed money from our 80-year-old neighbor, gave him the runaround for months, and did not pay him back. The neighbor called me, begging me for his money back. The wall of cards started to tumble, and I discovered that our neighbor wasn’t the only one he was borrowing from. I divorced him soon afterward.”
“He didn’t gamble, didn’t drink, or do drugs, and earned over $100k a year in the early ’90s, but he never had money. Nobody could figure out where he was spending his money, just that it was typically already gone two days after payday. I suspect he was playing the stock market (or it was playing him?). He died of a cardiac arrest, and there were no records, receipts, or evidence of where hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent.”
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