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Originally Posted by golden_eve
YES, you are absolutely right, Divine. He has no income, no job, no nothing and HUGE financial debt. I mean HUGE, hundreds of thousands of dollars. I would have inherited that debt, most likely, had I married him. What was I even thinking? He told me there was a way around that, and I actually believed him.
I'm like you. By no means am I entirely responsible myself financially, but I CAN support myself and have for most of my life. I pay off my debt and pay all my bills on time. I have no retirement funds and only a small amount of savings.
So it's not like I'm on top of the world financially myself, but at the very least, I expect my partner to have consistent and steady work and income, and my ex, since i have known him, has not been working. He's dragged his heels on finding work for an entire year. And all I kept hearing from him, over and over again, is I will get a job ASAP. Has he??? NO! He is perfectly comfortable not working and mooching off of his grandparents.
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I know it’s neither here nor there but you don’t have to inherit financial debt of your spouse unless you want to (some people don’t mind helping their spouse to pay debt). But if you don’t combine credit card and bank accounts, you are responsible for your own debt accumulated prior to marriage or a new debt
On the other topic if you married a guy and stayed long enough and he didn’t work and then divorced you, you’d pay him alimony. My husband pays alimony because his ex refused to get full time job for the whole duration of their marriage
You dodged a bullet