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hurtful assumptions

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I'm away, with kids and I get a text message, out of the blue, saying: "You have fallen low. Blocked access to apple payments". The message is weird and very impersonal. It seems that my partner had issues paying (for the game!) and immediately assumed that I blocked the card. Why? I have never done anything like that. We have equal access to all the accounts. Well, almost equal as at some point in the past my partner opened her own accounts with a different login to the one we share and I have no access to that. However, all our shared accounts are under the same login to the bank that we didn't change for decades. Anyway, this assumption was like a slap in the face. No amount of explanation was enough to convince her that I had nothing to do with this. Not to mention that I had almost no reception where we were staying.  When we got back home I checked the apple settings and they lost the expiry date on the card. Funny enough this convinced my partner that I indeed ...