My best friend offered me $10,000 to ease my financial stress. It nearly ended our friendship, but honesty brought us back together.

My best friend offered me $10,000 to ease my financial stress. It nearly ended our friendship, but honesty brought us back together.

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In India, I stretched my husband's modest income (which, back in 2018, was about $6,000 USD) like a tightrope — every rupee meticulously budgeted, every luxury nothing more than a distant dream. He was our sole breadwinner while I stayed home, and we had no other income to cushion us if things went awry. (For context, that year, the average annual salary in India was only about $2,000 to $3,000.)

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