5 months later

Marriage is interesting. Living life on your own allows certain freedoms and being with someone requires a little more flexibility. Shincy was upset with my mom and grandmother because they always did a lot for me. They continued doing stuff like making meals, doing laundry, and setting stuff up for me like they always did and Shincy didn't like it. One time when we had gotten into an argument she told me she felt like Wife number 3. I had a talk with my mom and they backed off a bit. Now there is a bit of awkwardness between members of the family because they don't want to bother Shincy, and Shincy feels like they are avoiding her.

The second big thing in my life is Shincy want's to move out. I don't think any girl wants to live with her in'laws. They dream is to get married and move in together and start a new life. The dream does require money though. We are both good at saving so we do have money to follow our dreams. After a fight one night I promised her that we would get a place of our own. I didn't want to go to an apartment and go straight into a house. We looked online, went to a bunch of open houses but never really found the one for us. Finally we went to an open house in hicksville and we fell in love with the place. It had big spacious rooms and everything was redone nicely.

We put in an offer and got accepted and we showed it to her family and a lot of issues came up. While the inside was great the outside needed a lot of work. They do have tenants and we would inherit the tenants and get that rental income. But there was no way to really know how reliable they are or how they are as people. I told my mom that we were looking for a place and she flipped out on me. They day after we had put our bid in Shincy's work situation had changed as well. It looked like our dream home wasn't meant to be.

So after being demoralized we decided to change our plans and start out smaller and get a co-op. Shincy was determined to move out so she put a lot of research into glen oaks and had set up appointments to see a few places. We met up with the real estate agent and he showed us a few places. Nothing really stood out to us as amazing. Once we were done with our appointments he siad there were a few more places that were available. He bought us to a big 2 bed room apartment that seemed modernized and we both really liked the place. We looked at a few more places but this was the place we wanted.

The place was going for 255 k so we started bidding around 230. We kept going back and forth and we stopped at 237. They said they didn't want to play the bidding war so they just rejected us outright. I told Shincy to wait a week and rebid at 240. They ended up accepting our offer so our dream was bright again. We went through the paperwork, hired a lawyer, got a mortgage and are getting ready to set up a closing date. This isn't our dream home but its a start in that direction. We will have our own place with our own responsibilities. It is exciting and scary at the same time.

5 months have passed and Shincy is able to handle me better. I play a lot of video games and at first it did affect her but now it doesn't bother her as much as it used to. We have a routine we go through and both of us are handling each other just fine. Our love is still strong and the future looks bright.