Comments on: Personal Financial Tipping Point http://otherdeb.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/personal-financial-tipping-point/ A blog about getting out of debt, regaining equilibrium, and writing Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:20:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Reaching the tipping point | Bible Money Matters http://otherdeb.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/personal-financial-tipping-point/#comment-197 Reaching the tipping point | Bible Money Matters Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:24:09 +0000 http://otherdeb.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-197 [...] The Dangling Conversation [...] [...] The Dangling Conversation [...]

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]]> By: otherdeb http://otherdeb.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/personal-financial-tipping-point/#comment-66 otherdeb Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:46:19 +0000 http://otherdeb.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-66 @FFB Yes, it's hard to take hold of your own actions, especially when someone else's actions are so darned intertwined with yours. The sad thing about my roommate is that she is four years older than me, and if it's being this hard for me at 56, and I am willing to face it, how much harder will it be for her if she ver faces it. She has said that she doesn't think anything short of being put on the street or being put in prison for check fraud will be enough to make her mend her ways. For me this means that all I can do is get things cleaned up as fast as I can and get the heck out of here, and I keep holding that in mind. But knowing that the person I am, for the time being, in tandem with financially has so totally given up on herself makes it that much harder to keep my focus. So far, I am succeeding in doing so, but it takes a lot of energy that i would rather be putting elsewhere. This blog is one way I am keeping myself focussed on the goal; reading blogs by folks like you (who are further along the spectrum than me) is another. @Peter: Thank you, and welcome to my little corner of the world. Would love to read your tipping point story, if you'd care to tell it or point me to your URL. @FFB Yes, it’s hard to take hold of your own actions, especially when someone else’s actions are so darned intertwined with yours. The sad thing about my roommate is that she is four years older than me, and if it’s being this hard for me at 56, and I am willing to face it, how much harder will it be for her if she ver faces it. She has said that she doesn’t think anything short of being put on the street or being put in prison for check fraud will be enough to make her mend her ways.

For me this means that all I can do is get things cleaned up as fast as I can and get the heck out of here, and I keep holding that in mind. But knowing that the person I am, for the time being, in tandem with financially has so totally given up on herself makes it that much harder to keep my focus. So far, I am succeeding in doing so, but it takes a lot of energy that i would rather be putting elsewhere.

This blog is one way I am keeping myself focussed on the goal; reading blogs by folks like you (who are further along the spectrum than me) is another.

@Peter: Thank you, and welcome to my little corner of the world. Would love to read your tipping point story, if you’d care to tell it or point me to your URL.

]]> By: Pete http://otherdeb.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/personal-financial-tipping-point/#comment-65 Pete Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:58:06 +0000 http://otherdeb.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-65 good tipping point story! good tipping point story!

]]> By: FFB http://otherdeb.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/personal-financial-tipping-point/#comment-64 FFB Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:59:35 +0000 http://otherdeb.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-64 Wow, sounds like a tough situation. But debt usually is a tough situation. I've had experiences with people who I knew needed financial help, they knew they needed it, but they weren't ready to change their habits. It's hard. You can show someone what needs to be done but in the end they have to be the ones to actually do it. It's nice to hear that you were able to get a hold of your finances. I'm starting to think that credit card debt is almost a right of passage into adulthood where you're really an adult once you can control it. Wow, sounds like a tough situation. But debt usually is a tough situation. I’ve had experiences with people who I knew needed financial help, they knew they needed it, but they weren’t ready to change their habits. It’s hard. You can show someone what needs to be done but in the end they have to be the ones to actually do it. It’s nice to hear that you were able to get a hold of your finances. I’m starting to think that credit card debt is almost a right of passage into adulthood where you’re really an adult once you can control it.

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