These are from the summer of 1997 when I was asked to take care of the bills while my voidable spouse left Norman, Oklahoma to visit his parents back in Taiwan ... I found them among the junks scattered out in the garage in January 2013.
I had prepared them for postal mailing; all my voidable spouse had to do was to write the checks, enclose them in the envelopes, seal the envelopes, and drop the envelopes in the mailbox for pickup by the postal worker.
But that did not happen. Why? Because the way my voidable spouse pays his bills—back then and even now—is by a) making the minimum payments on his charge cards, if he thinks he will need to use them again in the near future; b) ignoring utility and other similar bills until they threaten to cut services off; or c) waiting until the collections agencies offer to settle his debts by halves.
And this is what he would consider financial smarts and planning—none of which I have, so he claimed and told everyone, including my family. [I think lacking his kind of financial smarts is a good thing, don't you?]
I had prepared them for postal mailing; all my voidable spouse had to do was to write the checks, enclose them in the envelopes, seal the envelopes, and drop the envelopes in the mailbox for pickup by the postal worker.
But that did not happen. Why? Because the way my voidable spouse pays his bills—back then and even now—is by a) making the minimum payments on his charge cards, if he thinks he will need to use them again in the near future; b) ignoring utility and other similar bills until they threaten to cut services off; or c) waiting until the collections agencies offer to settle his debts by halves.
And this is what he would consider financial smarts and planning—none of which I have, so he claimed and told everyone, including my family. [I think lacking his kind of financial smarts is a good thing, don't you?]
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