"I wasn’t “rich” but comfortably upper middle-class. If I wanted to spend my birthday in Paris, I could, for example.
However, I was in a toxic marriage and had been out of the workforce for years raising my children. Once they were older, I got help for my depression and got out of the toxic marriage. At the time I worked for a local newspaper and was able to put a down payment on a modest house for myself and the kids.
Then the housing market crashed. Then the print news market crashed. Then my ex-husband withheld child support. I had several VERY lean years while I built up my own business, and it was incredibly hard."
Continued…
especially #1... buying cars to your "friends"...? really?
...On her husband's money, which continued to fund her "independence" after she left him and somehow bought a house while "working for a local newspaper."
Codependents Unanimous has since obviously taught her every buzzword necessary to cast herself as a hero victimized by an unkind Fate. You go, girl!