My credit card debt: $230,000.

The first time my mother-in-law told me to come up with three hundred thousand dollars for the wedding gift money, I had an episode right in front of them.

I coughed up blood.

They thought I'd just been in another car accident. It scared them half to death.

They were wrong.

It was disgust. Pure, body-breaking disgust.

Because I'd discovered the truth. A truth so devastating it shattered everything I believed in.