Paying Back Debt as Self-Punishment (and Findom)
Steve Rhode and Damon Day on why people punish themselves to repay debt they could legally erase — a 71-year-old refusing bankruptcy, and a man trapped in…
Steve Rhode and Damon Day on why people punish themselves to repay debt they could legally erase — a 71-year-old refusing bankruptcy, and a man trapped in…
Financial domination is real, and it’s the clearest example I know that debt is math wrapped in emotion. Here are the four stages — and the way out.
Financial domination can quietly empty your savings and retirement. Here’s the trap, the warning signs, and how to get free — without shame or judgment.
Editor's note (2026): I wrote this piece back in 2012, and I wrote it as a curiosity — something to gawk at. I've since heard from people quietly drowning in this, and I owe them better than that. If financial domination is costing you more than you can afford — your savings, your retirement, your …