My sister and I are both financially responsible for our mom's medical debt from her cancer treatment, but she thinks we should pay the minimums forever while I want to aggressively tackle it, and we can't agree partly because we have different relationships with Mom and different feelings about what we owe her. Every conversation about payment strategy becomes a conversation about love and guilt and fairness between siblings.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people managing inherited family debt cannot separate financial strategy from their complex feelings about obligation, sacrifice, and what constitutes proper care.
“Where Are You with Debt — understanding managing escaping?”
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