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Strained

Someone once told me that there are two ingredients to a successful marriage: love and money.  Take away the love, you’ll have problems.  Take away the financial stability, you’ll have problems.  I had forgotten that quote until now…

 

We still love each other just as much, but love doesn’t pay the bills.  It’s just stress.  It’s just money.  Jason was laid off at the beginning of the month from a brick manufacturing company.  He’s worked there for three years.  We depended on his paycheck, his benefits for insurance, etc.  This has been devastating.  We’re just trying to hang on, take it one day at a time, and know that this won’t last forever.   So in the end, we seem to do okay, but I always feel like we’re two paychecks away from the poorhouse. 

 

Jason has a lead on a promising job.  I’m afraid to get too excited about it until he’s actually hired, but I’m holding my breath.

 

It’s more than money.  It’s personal stress.  An issue that I’m not ready to even discuss.  Things right now are just about as bad as they can get.

 

I just hate the uncertainty.  I’m a planner.  I want to know that everything will work out accordingly.  I want to know that in a few years, we will live comfortably, we will have a nice home, we will take a family vacation, we will have a sense of financial security.    

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