My Wife Hid Money From Her First Marriage From Me

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start budgeting for free today well I
just find out that my wife has $70,000
in bed from her previous marriage and uh
I don't know what to do
sir she wanted to Fire
bankrupts and uh I'm freaking
out okay how long have you been
married three months
whoa yeah so you guys didn't talk about
money before you got
married
yes you're saying she hid this from
you she did
Sir
okay um what is the nature what kind of
debt is
it okay so I have all the informations
here uh she was in a busy relationship
and her ex-husband took everything for
her
and uh they together had a car repo that
equals
$50,000 MH she had a car loan that she
got screwed that equals $12,000 had a
what a car loan a car loan is 50 Grand I
got that what was the second thing it's
a car loan that she needed uh to get a
new car for her oh another car loan her
ex to yeah another car on pet
rer uh and she got $60,000 in collection
and 2,000 credit
cards all right I'm sorry I thought you
said it was
70,000 7,000 that's right okay 50,000 on
a car
repo yes sir okay and what's the other
20,000 12,000 in a car loan okay do you
have the
car yeah she does have the car right now
okay she's driving a car around and
you're engaged to her and you didn't
know it had a car loan on it I do know
that she had this uh 12,000 car loan oh
okay so you didn't know part of this
okay yeah and then the other 8,000 is
what uh it's 6,000 collections what
2,000 in credit card collections on what
medical bills okay medical good all
right and uh and then what was the other
what's the fourth one what medical bills
and a dog a dog okay yes that's the
6,000
okay is there is there anything I've got
three things car loan car repo 6,000 in
medical bills you got anything
else uh 2,000 credit cards oh okay all
right and what of this did you not
know well pretty much everything besides
the
$112,000 car loan that she had it okay
that she's still having right now
where's the
dog uh the dog died
sounds like a country song yeah yeah sir
it's uh it's a lot of stuff going on
so what what do you do for Gabriel what
do you do for a living and what do you
make uh I'm a banker and Jesus I make
$23 23 an hour okay all right and what
does she do and what does she make she's
a receptionist and she make the same as
Me 2 an hour okay and you're both
working home P it's 5,000k a month yeah
okay so you're making about 80 grand
between the two of you and you're
getting home with about 60 okay yes sir
so uh I really don't know what to do how
old are you too I'm 23 and she's 25 okay
all right how long was she married
before uh for eight years okay all
right okay there's two things here uh
first off let's just go ahead and tell
you she's not bankrupt not even close
okay so bankruptcy is ridiculous we're
not even going to talk about that
there's two things to be addressed here
if I'm in your
shoes in our world we call this
financial infidelity where a wife or a
husband hides and lies about money to
their
spouse okay it's a breach of
trust and some people in marriage
counseling say that this breach of of
trust is almost as bad and even some say
worse I don't know how but than sexual
infidelity mhm it's a breach of trust
when you betray or you lie to your
spouse about 50 freaking
thousand it touches the same
nerves that infidelity touches do you
follow me because it's a breach of
trust because then you start to wonder
what else can I not trust what else is
going on right
yeah I'm very I really don't know what
to do sir I I try everything that I can
staring door Dash and driving Uber but
uh it's not enough to they have $50,000
you just let me deal with the Tactical F
in in a minute the first thing are you
guys in a good
church uh yes sir we are okay call the
church and set up marriage counseling
today M because the two of you have to
deal with this breach of
trust this is a major issue in your
marriage
okay when you find out three months
after you got married that your wife has
lied to you about major stuff that's a
problem in your marriage okay that's a
big one it's a big old problem I'm more
worried about that than I am the 70
grand dude you're a banker and you're a
nerd so you're more worried about 70
grand so I'm trying to explain to you 70
grand ain't nothing we can take care of
that the
lying and the
deception has got to end there's got to
be repentance on that there's I don't
know whether it was shame that kept her
from telling you or cuz she's knew you
were going to freak out or I don't know
what it was why she didn't tell you but
that's a big
deal yeah I understand and uh she don't
want to get in touch with her ex-husband
she was very very abused by by this guy
I don't need to get in touch with him
why would we need to get in touch with
him to I don't know deal this car
repo you're all the way back over on
fixing it again without dealing with the
marriage problem dude I'm telling you
eight 80% of this problem is her lying
about this 20% is cleaning up the mess I
can clean up the mess here in no time if
but I got to get you to understand are
you going to call the church and get you
some counseling
today yes I will sir okay both of you go
cuz you've got to explain to her what
this did that this that cuz you can't go
here again this is this is deal ending
stuff it's an Integrity breach and so
now here's what we're going to do
pretty simple the medical bills are in
default they're in collections
correct yes sir are the credit cards in
collections as well same thing okay and
they're cut up is the car loan that
she's driving
current let me just uh ask you something
sir she got screwed up by these guys sir
uh her car it's worth it
$3,000 on is the car loan
current yes okay pay it off or work your
way out of it depending on what you're
going to do there all the rest of these
Gabriel can be negotiated with for
probably 10 to 15 cents on the dollar so
you've got SE
$64,000 that can probably be settled for
six or 8,000 bucks but you're going to
to start calling them and offering them
10 cents on the dollar to settle and
every one of them will take it you're
just going to have to Hardline negotiate
with them and get it in writing before
you give them money you can work your
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