I had a lot of fun writing our story (all true I SWEAR – especially the beautiful, young, peasant girl part) and cannot thank Gail enough for asking me to post. She made my day. Heck! She made my year. Okay, why deny it? She made my decade! And she changed our lives.

That someone as funny, intelligent, talented and just plain lovely as she is thinks that I am funny as well leaves me speechless. Well, of course that’s not quite true as witnessed by the length of my post.

I love words but obviously have no self-editing gene in my DNA. To make matters worse my Mum gave me her “Concise Dictionary of Twenty-six Languages” a few years ago. That is why I can spell ‘debt’ in all of them. Wanna see? No? Well okay, if you INSIST — dette, deuda, debito, divida, datorie, Schulden (boy the Germans take things seriously, they even give it a capital letter!), schuld, skuld, skylda, gjeld, dlug, dluh, dug, adossag, velka, borc, utang, suldo, dolk, chre’os, dayn, chovah, choif, shakkin, deni and debt.

Taaadaaa! Neat trick huh? Clears a room from swinging party to empty in 3.8 seconds flat. But I digress.

Gail very accurately calls me loquacious – which means luscious, gorgeous and voluptuous right? – and if you listen to my friends and family they will tell you that I was born talking. If you listen to my Truelove he is less polite and will tell you that I suffer from a bad case of verbal diarrhea. Either way they will tell you that I am rarely at a loss for words.

But this is actually the second time Gail has left me speechless. The first time was on a dark and stormy night in 2005 as we were watching the first “Til Debt Do Us Part” show.

All life changing moments deserve to be observed with a moment of silence but I usually have to stuff a sock in my mouth. Not this time. I was completely overcome with emotion and listening so intently that time and everything else kind of stood still. At one point the Hubster actually held my hand. I thought it was because he was feeling the same emotions as I was but later learned that he was just taking my pulse to see if I was still hanging around.

This show and Gail’s “tell it like it is” message was what led to the end of our debt and despair. I still remember the relief I felt. RELIEF to find out that we were kind of normal – not alone out there spending ourselves silly. RELIEF to find out that there was a step by step plan which would end all the panic and fighting. RELIEF to find out that solving all our problems was actually EASY – only requiring that we grow up and change absolutely everything about our stupid way of thinking and reckless way of living. No problem.

One of my greatest wishes is that this feeling of relief will one day soon be in every debtor’s life. It is amazing. You know how they say that exercise, eating chocolate and drinking red wine releases all kinds of feel good chemicals from your brain? Well I can completely confirm that chocolate and wine have this effect (exercise was, is and will always be just a long four letter word to me) and want to add that I now have scientific proof that NOTHING releases more feel good chemicals than reading a zero balance on a credit card statement while eating chocolate, drinking wine and watching “Til Debt”.

Thank you all once again for reading my story.

Maureen

Gail, thanks for bring this to us.

: )

Here! here! To our Fairy Godmother!

P.S
I just paid of my Line of Credit! Such a good feeling! (I said NO when the evil banker asked to increase it!)

We love you Fairy Godmother!