{"id":7799,"date":"2018-07-10T07:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T05:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2018-07-10T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T05:22:22","slug":"white-knighting-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7799\/","title":{"rendered":"White Knighting for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember this guy<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Before I married my wife two years ago, she had huge amounts of debt to her name, including large amounts of student loans. After we married, we diligently almost paid everything off, helped by my salary being three times that of my wife.<\/p>\n

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She recently asked for a divorce, saying she was taking the house and my retirement.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve only been married a few years, and frankly I can\u2019t help feeling taken advantage of. The only advice I can find discusses whose responsibility the student loans would be, but now it just seems that she got me to pay all of her debts, and got some new stuff, while I threw away years of my life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, he’s not alone<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I supported my girlfriend during her recent studies. We are not married. She took 3 years from the inception of the program to finish, pass her board exams, and get her license to practice dental hygiene, despite the fact that it\u2019s only supposed to be a 26-month program.<\/p>\n

During this time, I paid the rent, utilities, food, entertainment, vacations, some medical expenses, toiletries, and other miscellaneous expenses.<\/p>\n

Her mother covered some things for her, and her ability to take loans was restricted by previous undergraduate loans as well as lack of availability of federal loans due to use of grants in undergraduate.<\/p>\n

Our relationship is unwinding. I have sacrificed greatly in order to provide for her. I could have paid for the remainder of my student loans, advanced my career by investing in continuing education and, of course, increasing my portfolio and retirement accounts.<\/p>\n

Is there any legal recourse I can take when we break up, to receive reimbursement for my contributions to her living expenses? Despite me not paying a cent towards her actual degree, her living was majority financed by me (80% at a minimum). Her income is going to quadruple with her new job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a pattern here, isn’t there? It’s time men got a bit smarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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