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โIf you've just found this place, I was where you are eighteen months ago. It was bailiff letters and I couldn't see past it. My kids say I'm back. The bad days get further apart.โ
โDear stranger, this time last year I was exactly where you are. It was minimum payments forever and I couldn't see past it. Today I went for a walk and didn't cry once. Things come back, slower than you'd like but they do. Hang on.โ
โWhen the debt first hit me I felt like I was going under. I kept it from my wife out of shame, which only made things heavier. What helped was finally telling someone. After that I sat down and wrote out every debt I owed, then worked out how to clear them bit by bit. It is slow going and some weeks are rough. Still, it can be done. Plenty of people have been where you are. Ask for help. Tell someone you trust. And just keep chipping away at it. That is where I am at right now.โ
โYou are going to do the math in your head at 2am and it will make you feel sick. Do it anyway in the daylight, with a pencil. The adviser did not make me feel small. Bring the letters. All of them, even the ones you hid in the drawer. You did the thing that felt shameful and you can say it out loud now, and the saying is the start. It will not be fixed next week. It will be a plan. A plan has a date.โ