advicee column: My Wife Stopped Paying Her Student Loan Because of Joe Biden - Now she wants me to cover them.

[MatureDJ]

My Wife Stopped Paying Her Student Loan Because of Joe Biden

Now she wants me to cover them.

slate.com

My wife and I have been together since high school and have three kids. We both went to our own respective trade schools after high school back in 2008 and finished around the same time—in a decimated economy and job market. She struggled to find work, and I had a job lined up before I even finished. From then on I held steady work and paid my bills, including paying off my student loans and car, and helping her pay off her two cars (one was totaled). My wife didn’t work until 2011, before finally getting a professional job in 2014 that has nothing to do with her schooling. She didn’t pay her student loan—she put it on deferment until she couldn’t anymore, and as far as I was aware, she had started making payments in 2016.

When we tried to get a car loan earlier this year, I found out she hasn’t been paying her student loan and has severe delinquency remarks. When I confronted her, she said she believed Biden was going to pay it off and stopped making payments and also she feels like she doesn’t have to pay it back because she never got a job in her field of study. She is now demanding I make her student loan payments for her! I am so confused at how careless and irresponsible she is acting. I’ve never been selfish with my money: I pay the entire rent and the utilities, and she has full access to all my accounts and never questioned any of it. Now I’m questioning if I should make a personal account and only give her what she needs. I don’t want to be like that, but what would you do?

my opinion: She's got him by the balls.

 

[Georgepithyou]

If the many has a shred of common sense he would divorce her and run right now

 

[Bible_Belt]

Spousal debt carried into the marriage is not the liability of the other spouse, absent a signature to cosign or refi.

 

[2Rocky]

Ouch....I've been in a similar situation. When I got a collections call for HER line of credit overdraft, I knew I was done....

I told myself I would NEVER put myself in that position again...

Thanks for the reminder

 

[MatureDJ]

If the many has a shred of common sense he would divorce her and run right now

What if she closes her legs in response?

 

[Robert28]

What if she closes her legs in response?

She’s probably been doing that for years now anyways.

 

[jimwho]

What if she closes her legs in response?

It could be a good thing. Dodging yet another bullet!