I'll try to keep this short, and to the point... just need to vent, and get this off my chest. Beginning about 6 months ago, my stay at home wife (we are both 28) became really invested in gifting people on TikTok. It started small, and innocent, but quickly spiraled far more out of control than I ever would've imagined.
It's spiraled so out of control that all of our savings (about 11k) has been spent on it. It's my fault for not moving the money to somewhere it couldn't be touched, but here we are. Bills stopped being paid, credit cards are way past due (so credit is beyond f'd up) and there is an eviction in the works. Our car payment has been skipped for several months and that's now facing a repo. My paycheck would hit our bank account and 80% would spent on TikTok before I would even get home from work. We are having a near impossible time getting into a new place because of our credit, and I have no idea what we are going to do. She refuses to delete the app, and stop what she's doing. I've come down to telling myself it's comparable to a gambling addiction (at least that's how I try to validate it to myself). She says she knows she has a problem and needs to stop, but continues to do it. She says she regrets it immediately afterwards and feels so down and bad about it, but turns around and does it again the second we get the littlest bit of money. She has basically no choice but to stop now that she realizes the predicament she's put us in. I try to not place blame, and I try my hardest to be understanding, but I can't help but to feel angry and exhausted. I’d work lots of hours one week in an effort to have a hefty paycheck to pay rent, but that would be spent as well.
I am quite literally, financially ruined.
Submitted November 15, 2023 at 12:41AM by Ok-Elephant9953 https://ift.tt/6G95lXH
