Check this out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/studentloan..._for_10_years/Long story short, we currently owe about $55k in student loans from my wife's time in grad school, which she did not complete. We never paid a single dime, but got a few years of deferment and forbearance. We're not exactly sure when she went into default, but we believe it's somewhere between 2009 and 2011.
We're actually not sure if these loans are federal or private. She's long since forgotten where the loans came from, and of course the account information she'd need to log into any systems. The loans have been in collections forever, currently the letters are coming from Allied Interstate.
She doesn't currently (nor has she ever) worked after taking the loans out.
Link for the whole mess. This guy is basically dooming his life for the next decades, avoiding serious work because it will just go to pay the debt.
Many husbands on this subreddit asking for help on student debt they incurred through their wife.
https://www.reddit.com/r/studentloan...&restrict_sr=1
Women consistently have higher student debt because they don't save money; they spend too much on apartment rent, spend too much in general (for some data points, see my writeup from a while back: https://www.goingyourownway.com/mgto...r+pan+syndrome)
Also see this link (page 13). After 12 years from college, men have paid off almost half their student debt while women have paid off only about a quarter (data for white borrowers). So-called wage gap has little to do with it; largest gaps are when men and women are in their 40s and men move into management and women don't. This data was from ages 18 to 30.
So add this to the list of reasons women seek out male beta providers in their 30s: "some lamewad I'm not even attracted to, to pay off my student debt."
You were responsible, you paid off your debt. She was acting like a dog in heat, humping every man who her hindbrain figured would be a "resource-controlling male" circa 50,000 BC, spending with reckless abandon. You're not husband material because she's suddenly into you in your 30s. Your bill-payer material; your someone who can still get a mortgage to buy a home because your credit isn't f@#$#ed.
Add this to the ever-growing list to never marry. Notch count AND student debt too damn high. (Also consider how responsible she'll be with your money when this is the crisis she created with her own).