Top 10 taboo topics we don't want to discuss:
1. Credit card debt
2. Sex
3. Salary
4. Monthly mortgage or rent payments
5. Health problems
6. Death of a loved one
7. Weight
8. Religious views
9. Political views
10. Age
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"We're surprised to find that people are more comfortable talking about the death of a loved one than discussing their credit card debt," said Ben Woolsey, Director of Marketing and Consumer Research for CreditCards.com. "Talking about credit card debt is an overwhelming social taboo. There is a social paradox happening. People who are faced with credit card debt are unwilling to face their financial issues and therefore may be leaving it unresolved."
This is what your friends don't want you to know about their credit card debt:
--35 percent say they carry a balance on their credit cards, while 51 percent say they do not. (Ten percent said they don't have credit cards, and 5 percent didn't know if they had a balance.)
--80 percent of those who say they don't carry a balance are still unwilling to discuss their credit card debt.
--The higher the income, the greater the chance there is a credit card balance. Fully 44 percent of those with annual household incomes over $50,000 carry a balance, compared with 30 percent who have lower incomes.
