being held responsible for someone else!!!!!

United States
March 4, 2008 12:11am CST
Here is the scenario .. Say you have a friend that the guy/girl your living with borrowed money from you have made it known that when money or anything is lent to him/her that you have no part in it, that it is to him , because you do not want to be responsible for his/her debts. Then your boyfriend/girlfriend is not paying his debt back. Again your boyfriend/girlfriend goes and asks his/her friend to borrow more money and then his/her friend talks to you about it and you point out if you have problems getting what he owes you know then it wouldn't be a good idea to lend anymore to this party, at that point you again tell the party you have no part in this and that it's between the two friends and not you because you are not wanting any part in this and are not asking for the money. But then later it gets turned around because the significant other of the person who lent the money is getting on them saying hold the other party responsible because they live together. Do you feel this is right especially when they told the lender that they are not involved and warned them not to lend to the party again? Mind you that these two are not married either, and they can't be held under a common law marriage either. Not to mention the one they are now trying to hold responsible did not make any agreement to pay back their significant others debt, quite the opposite they specifically stated that they want no part in the debt because they are not asking for it.
3 responses
@slothgurl (569)
• Enumclaw, Washington
4 Mar 08
My response probably wont help, but... My rule is never lend ANYTHING to a friend or relative that you expect back.
• United States
4 Mar 08
thanks but that wasn't what the question was.
• Enumclaw, Washington
4 Mar 08
Sorry, so your boyfriend borrowed money from your friend and wont pay it back? And you don't want to be involved?
• United States
4 Mar 08
no it's not my boyfriend but this is a situation of another friend of mine and I was present when my friend said she doesn't think that the person who lent the money should lend more and that she is not in this. They are not married and they live together and are dating but each has their own money and bills they don't have joint anything ... Why should she pay for his mistake when she didn't agree to anything and even advised the other person not to and told them I have nothing to do with it it's between you and him.
@Mamagee (392)
• Malaysia
4 Mar 08
Who borrowed the money is responsible to pay it back. There's no true friend when comes to money.
• United States
4 Mar 08
yeah the guy borrowed it and now the friend is holding his girlfriend responsible when she told her friend not to lend him the money!!!!
• Regina, Saskatchewan
4 Mar 08
Well it's the person who made the deal that is responsible not the one who said they didn't want to be involved and said not to lend the money. I find that if the person goes after the other party then they have no class and that they are not such a good friend. Sorry but maybe whoever your talking about should cut their loses and run.
• United States
4 Mar 08
I think cutting losses and running is a little drastic but I think that she just doesn't want to be held responsible over something that she specifically said that she was not part of the equation and that she didn't ask for the money to be lent to her or him.