Pay Off Your Student Loans, But Not Like This

Pay Off Your Student Loans, But Not Like This

Hey everyone! Today I have a great post for you from Jen over at SavingWithSpunk.com. Jen was one of my blogging students back in the day, and her site is doing really well. This post brings up one of the things that I think is probably discussed the least when it comes to paying off debt – high amounts of stress.

I have readers email me all the time that are so stressed out, but don’t know how to manage that feeling while they pay off their student loans. I think this post will really help! Enjoy! ~M$M

2015 Was a great year for me.

I got engaged, threw a fabulous wedding, and had a wonderful honeymoon in the Smoky Mountains. Then we made the decision to lean in and pay off my car and all our student loans as fast as possible.

That’s how I got shingles.

Well, I didn’t get them as much as I “developed” them because I’d had chickenpox. Everyone thought it was because of newlywed and holiday stress and I totally let them believe that. But truth is, I was stressed to the max about paying off those loans.

Out of the roughly $85,000 of debt we started our marriage with, $61K was mine. Knowing I carried over double the amount of debt my husband did gave me a lot of guilt and I felt pressure to work twice as hard to pay it off.

My sweet husband probably has no idea I thought this, I don’t even think I knew until recently. I worked three, sometimes four, jobs, I was up at 6 am and home after 10 pm, never had a day off, and I didn’t pick very easy side hustles.

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