jeez meth, that sucks tcuhf. i know a couple who are strung out on that crap, never would have guessed it would happen to them. i guess you can be happy to have her out of your life before she destroyed it.
I hate that crap. I grew up right by the stadiums in KC. I lived in KC but went to Raytown schools. That crap was out of control during the 90's. I've had friends die from it, family and friends go to prison for really long times, and it destroyed my younger brother's wife. That's part of the reason I stayed down here after graduation. I was tired of coming home to find out someone else had died, been locked up, alienated everyone they knew. Plus the job market was better down here.
She did her best to try and destroy it. She ran up about $7k in credit cards. I've managed to knock off about $2500 of it in the last two months while she attempted sobriety. I can knock another quick $2k off of it once I get the hail damage fixed on my daily driver and I can sell a car that's sitting in my driveway.
The shitty thing is I sacrificed to put her through a Masters in Counseling Psychology program. Right after she graduated is when all this bullshit started. So instead of building up assets over that time, I was sacrificing to get her through school.