with them—and forced to give up my own education. (https://brightside.me/tags/education/) So she used her retirement money and life savings to clear it all, silently. She had been keeping my wife’s debts a secret from me to protect me,

and that’s why she had tried her best to prevent me from marrying her. When I confronted my wife, she said my mother had spoken to her—and asked her to keep it a secret.