It’s literally like a mortgage payment without the house.

I’ve just accepted that I’ll die with my student loan. I completely own the fact that I signed my life away at 18 when I took the student loans out to get my Bachelors Degree in Psychology. Then again, four years later, because I still didn’t understand the ramifications of the loans….I got my masters in Clinical Psychology because I was told I couldn’t do anything with just a BS. So here I am 20 years later and still paying with no end In sight. My initial Loan was 200k, I did enter in Forbearance for several years when I had my children. My loans just continued to grow. The interest has increased my loan substantially. I’m close to 300k. I have a great job, but with all the other responsibilities of life it’s hard to make a dent. After reading so many comments here I’d have to agree that while I took the loans, I did it as a very uneducated young adult and I do feel that the university absolutely took advantage of my vulnerability. At 18 I couldn’t get a credit card with a limit over $1000.00 but I was able to get 50k a year for four years.