The Moneyist: ‘I was once an emotionally unkempt individual’: I’m 27, was raised in poverty, and work in a grocery store. I have $8,000 in debt. Can you help?

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The Moneyist: ‘I was once an emotionally unkempt individual’: I’m 27, was raised in poverty, and work in a grocery store. I have $8,000 in debt. Can you help?
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1 The Moneyist
2 ‘There is a pressure to turn my finances around because I’m in a serious relationship with a guy who makes great money and owns his own home’
2.1 “He knows I have made major changes in my life, and he is very supportive, but I have never told him about the debt.”
2.1.1 Dear Moneyist,

The Moneyist


‘There is a pressure to turn my finances around because I’m in a serious relationship with a guy who makes great money and owns his own home’

“He knows I have made major changes in my life, and he is very supportive, but I have never told him about the debt.”


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Dear Moneyist, 

I’m a 27-year-old grocery-store employee. I was raised in poverty and in an unstable household, and I was once an emotionally unkempt individual. But with the help of therapy and ADHD treatment, I am now a very stable person. One thing that has followed me from my previous lifestyle, however, is old debt and a horrible credit score. 

I…

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