The Apartment Project

Possibly the biggest year and opportunity of my life to improve my (by extension our) future financial security. Could I have completed the project if our relationship was “whole”? Was it really a choice between a relationship now and a secure future later or did I manufacture that in my own head? If we still lived far apart, how would that project affect the relationship? Cris was clear she doesn’t have the patience for me to be working on projects on weekends. Did she understand the doors this project could open for us? At the cost of discomfort and sacrifice for 1 year….for half a lifetime of benefits?

I saw it as a way to go after future dreams like her small hotel dream or bringing her mother to live for the summers here.

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