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    Okay, I’m going to leave aside the fact that he’s got two Teslas, which I hate with a passion.

    He literally said he’s about even on the Kampfwagen.

    The model Y is, for all intents and purposes, all the car anyone really needs (if he NEEDED a truck, he’d have a real truck). He’s upside down on it, sure, but there’s nothing to do about that unless he can pay off extra. However, he can keep making the payments and just driving it. It should still have several years of battery and drivetrain warranty unless Tesla’s is shorter than the industry standard 8 years.

    Sell the fucking Panzer and drive the Y until you’ve managed to pay off your stupid debt, numbnuts. I WISH my debt problem was that easy. My ex put me deeeeeep into 5 digits of debt with constant manipulation (it started off with her getting pregnant “on the pill” so she could start threatening me with never seeing the baby if I don’t do the things she wants me to do) and I have NO assets to show for it. Nothing to sell. My car cost me under 2k. Now totals to around 3k with the registration, insurance, maintenance and repairs I’ve done. My only solace is that even after I get everything paid off, nobody’s giving me a loan for another 5 years till the debt registry entries are cleared. I literally can’t get into more debt anymore, other than the interest on old shit, which luckily is capped too.

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      Except that CyberTruck owners are not allowed to resell for a certain number of years, according to their contract.

      Edit: Apparently the contract was only for one year, and it has since been discontinued.

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        I would have several tens of thousands more dollars if I hadn’t dated my verbally abusive ex who I moved to a new state for, and then they cheated on me. Moving multiple times during that chaos was expensive. Fun stuff. Sorry y’all got screwed over too.

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          I’m down over 100k. To be fair a lot of that is from extra income I wouldn’t have earned if I wasn’t so fucked. But then I could’ve slept more than 3h a night if I didn’t have to do that.

          I’m just starting my road to recovery, still in a constant battle. She’s trying to weaponize our child against me and I’m documenting everything with CPS but in our country only courts can tell her to relinquish custody back to me. CPS has no such power, but they do show up in court to make sure the child’s interests are protected.

          I hope you’re recovering too.

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            Shit, that sounds awful. I’m glad we didn’t have any kids involved. Sorry you’re going through that.

            Incredibly painful and had me borderline suicidal at the time because I had ZERO friends or support in the city we’d moved to for her job, I’d only lived there a few months.

            Mostly doing a lot better these days, after a lot of therapy (I had other shit I was working on in therapy prior to the cheating, I was 6 months sober when she cheated on me. It almost broke me but I kept the streak, still not a drop of alcohol to this day), then I said fuck it and moved 1000 miles and restarted my life about a year ago.

            I definitely still have trust issues though. The idea of dating again still makes me anxious enough that I’ve only been on one date since moving here.

            Oh and somehow she’s already married? So fuck me even more lol

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              Kids make it harder but the other one already has a custody judgement in favor of the father so now it’s just mine to get back.

              In fact, as painful as it is, I think you might’ve had it worse. The upside of moving back to my family home to stop paying rent is that now I see some old high school friends nearly every day. I just hop over when I’m feeling lonely, they are used to having guests over nearly every day. Sometimes I just go for a cigarette and leave, sometimes I stay for 7 hours and play couch co-op games.

              I’m still on the fence about dating again. I drive a rusty old shitbox of a car and tell myself that it’ll repel future gold diggers. I had a nearly new Mercedes when I met my ex and I’m honestly somewhat blaming that car for attracting her. She’s proven time and time again that cars are the center of her universe.

              At this point if I meet someone new, I’m going to have financial criteria before I’m going on a second date. I.e if she has a stable job, her own place with no roommates, and it seems like she’d be able to pay for her own meals if I told her I wanted to split the check.

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          Isn’t it amazing how they weaponize money and everything? It’s honestly terrifying how meticulously manipulative they are.

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            Money, children (even before birth), everything.

            When she was pregnant, I had to talk her off suicide multiple times after minor fights. Some of those times it was followed up with “but will you buy me X like I wanted”?

            We owned over 50 strollers in less than 2 years. Many of them bought brand new, all sold with a loss. None were ever good enough. And then she fancied the same model she’d already bought and sold 5 times. Last time she got one of those in particular, I told her it would end our marriage. She laughed it off. We did not buy another stroller after that one and got divorced 2 months later or so. That one stroller was my final line in the sand, after hundreds of other reasons to break up. Sometimes you need a specific “if you do this after I’ve begged you not to, we’re done” because it helps you realise how little respect they have for you.

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              50 strollers is “you deeply need serious medical attention” territory. Sorry you had to go through that.

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                Yes, well, unfortunately medical attention is not given to those who don’t seek it.

                She is seeing a psychologist about her depression so she can claim she’s a healthy person now, but it’s not like they’re doing anything for the narcissism or the constant need to buy expensive things instead of food. She won’t mention any of the things that show her in a bad light.

                So now it’s up to me to prove in court that she is who I say she is.

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        It was over the last 2 years or so. It’s gonna be a long road to recovery, but if nothing else, I’m going to fight through all this just because the best revenge is to live a good life and she will be absolutely infuriated to see another ex of hers recover from the abuse while she’s still in debt and unable to survive without having a partner to leech off because she’s unwilling to work and unwilling to cut back on her lifestyle. I’m not the first victim and I doubt I’ll be the last, but it brings me some joy that her new boyfriend is literally the male version of her. An abusive liar, cheater and narcissist.