Think with your head. Not with your heart.

Submitted by Sherry (United States), Dec 21, 2015 at 21:04

Good for you. You are a smart young woman. You recognize this as a ploy for your sympathy. My former husband and his mother used me financially, too, and as you know, I did not realize what was happening until we had been married for many, many years. When i finally figured it out and confronted them, they LAUGHED at me for having been so ignorant. I mean they laughed in my face! My youth was gone. I was impoverished and they were and still are quite rich. They were rich the whole time they were ripping me off. But I fell for every financial trick they put to me. I was a fool, this is true, but it never occurred to me that I should not trust my husband and my mother-in-law

. I am glad you are using your head and are not getting sucked back in. I hope 2016 will be a wonderful year for you.

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