A.
Lie: The credit card and its role
There are more lies in Coward’s 2nd sentence, and
the rest of the 2nd paragraph:
I had discovered that she had opened a credit card in my name
without my knowledge and had spent it to its maximum of $5000 dollars. I had
also discovered many other lies and deceptions by Writer of this blog regarding
our relationship. At this time I thought it best to end the relationship.
Around mid to late February 1996, I discovered incontrovertible
evidence confirming my suspicions that Coward had been unfaithful to me. I had felt
vindicated in opening a credit card account in both Coward’s and my name, after
suffering his excessive control over how I could spend our money. The credit
limit was $2,000, and not the $5,000 that Coward alleges here. Coward did not find
out about the account until after I ended the relationship.
The
entire balance of the card was paid by me, and never by Coward. We were still
together from February to June 1996, and I paid it out of our shared account.
After I ended the relationship, I temporarily stopped paying on the account.
Coward did not discover the account’s existence until at
least two months after I ended the relationship, around August or September
1996.
I remember how he discovered it, because he violently confronted
me about it at the time. It was summer in the Sierra Nevada's. I remember I was wearing
shorts. My sister and I had just pulled into the parking lot of Small town Video one evening. Before we could get out, a pickup truck belonging to Coward’s
friend, LardO, pulled in behind me and blocked in my car. LardO was driving
and Coward was his passenger. Coward came to my side of the car and yanked me
out of it, scraping my exposed thigh on the car door as he did so. He grabbed
for my purse, yelling that he wanted the credit card, and began emptying my
purse. He terrified me and my sister.
I had already thrown away the credit card, so he didn’t find
it in there. My sister was yelling at him to stop. LardO stood by and watched,
doing nothing. Coward kicked in the driver side door panel, leaving a big dent.
Around that time, the owner of the video store came outside to see what was
causing the commotion. At that point, Coward and LardO left the parking lot.
Later, I guess Coward must have complained to the credit
card company, because they called me about whether he should have been liable
for the debt. I agreed to take over the debt fully and absolve Coward of
responsibility. The debt should have been solely on my credit report, not his.
I reached a settlement with the debtor and have closed the account as paid. Coward
never paid a dime into that account.
I haven’t even begun to detail Coward’s “lies and deceptions”
to me, especially regarding his numerous affairs. Briefly, Coward had infected
me with a sexually-transmitted disease that he acquired from a one-night stand,
perhaps a prostitute. He denied it, and blamed poor bathroom hygiene on my
part. He admitted later to having a different one-night stand and several
“almost” sexual encounters, and I still forgave him.
I was young and naïve, and didn’t feel brave enough to be on
my own. I did suspect his infidelity many other times. Even when I had proof
that he hadn’t been faithful, after he had professed his trueness repeatedly
and profoundly, I reluctantly accepted his promises to stay true. He finally broke
his promises too many times, and I got older and wiser enough to have the
courage to end it.
Corroboration
I will
authorize an inquiry with credit reporting agencies as to archival or
historical data, if it exists. The account was closed years ago.
My sister
Marlene remembers this event and will attest to its truthfulness.
