Money Talk Matters – Premarital Financial Program

I have been reading like many others about Steve McNair and the “other woman”, who was not his wife who he chose to become involved with. I thought about this for a day or so and decided this morning to write about it.

Clearly, this young woman did not know what she had gotten herself into and I imagine was “proud” that she had someone of his caliber interested in her. Let’s take a quick review – she was a waitress that drove a Kia. Pro Athlete comes into her life and she gets an Escalade, a condo with him and it appears she could be on easy street. She was led to believe (we don’t know if he told her) that he was going to divorce his wife which is why she was going to sell her furniture.

From my reading the story in the news, she had a roommate that moved out and now her rent was going to cost her $1,000, she was paying on the Escalade and her Kia which she did not sell. So she felt that her life was spiraling out of control financially and she thought her Pro Athlete boyfriend (husband) was seeing someone else other than her and the wife.

Let’s talk about the mind for a minute. This is absolutely CRAZY . Follow my thought pattern for a minute – if you are the other woman involved with a married, since he is not being faithful to his wife and spending time with you – what makes you think he is going to be faithful with you. Okay, now I can get off of that rant.

This young lady clearly was overwhelmed by her financial obligations that she could not handle and those other factors made it worse. In the end, she felt her only way out was to end it all for those immediately involved. Which without knowing had a snowball effect – now, once again it comes to the light that a husband has been cheating on his wife with whom he had kids. She had no knowledge of it. She is left making funeral arrangements, trying to make sense of what just happened and unfortunately, I imagine she will have to try and explain this to their children.

Recommendation: Overwhelming Debt can lead to Disaster and Irreparable Damage.

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