One evening, my husband, Jason, came home and told me his mother urgently needed $15,000.<\/p>\n
He said her credit was too poor to qualify for a loan and insisted she would repay me within a year.<\/p>\n
I asked what the money was for.<\/p>\n
He refused to explain.<\/p>\n
When I suggested he take out the loan himself, Jason claimed that because he worked at a bank, additional debt could hurt his career.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t like it, but after days of pressure, I finally agreed.<\/p>\n
A month later, I saw his mother at a family dinner and casually asked when she planned to begin repayments.<\/p>\n
She stared at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat loan?\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought she was joking.<\/p>\n
Then she became angry.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never borrowed money from you.\u201d<\/p>\n
That night, I confronted Jason.<\/p>\n
At first, he blamed his mother and claimed she was embarrassed.<\/p>\n
Then I showed him the bank transfer.<\/p>\n
He finally admitted the truth.<\/p>\n
The money had gone to a private account he used to cover gambling losses he had hidden from me for nearly two years.<\/p>\n
He had used his mother as a story because he knew I would never approve otherwise.<\/p>\n
I immediately separated our finances and spoke with an attorney.<\/p>\n
Jason begged me to stay and promised treatment.<\/p>\n
I told him the debt wasn\u2019t the only problem.<\/p>\n
He had watched me sign my name to a $15,000 obligation while knowing every reason he gave me was a lie.<\/p>\n
Money can be repaid.<\/p>\n
Trust is much harder to refinance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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