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I just found out my fiancé has been secretly using our honeymoon fund to pay off his credit card debt.
We set up a honeymoon fund instead of a registry. Friends and family have been contributing for months. Italy. Amalfi Coast. The whole dream.
Last night, I logged into the account to check balances. The number was lower than it should’ve been. By a lot.
I asked him if there was a glitch.
There wasn’t.
He admitted he’d transferred money out a few times to cover his credit card payments. He said it was temporary. That he always planned to put it back before the wedding. That it was “basically our money anyway.”
I asked why he didn’t tell me.
He said he didn’t want to stress me out. That money makes him anxious. That he thought he could handle it quietly and fix it later.
But this isn’t quiet. This is lying. This is taking money our families gave us for a shared future and using it for a secret problem. What should I do?
-Ruby
Hilary Sheinbaum is a journalist, the founder of GoingDry.co and the author of The Dry Challenge: How to Lose the Booze for Dry January, Sober October, and Any Other Alcohol-Free Month and is on this week’s 1-800-Bridesmaid sharing her advice on what Ruby should do.
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