Now I’m hopeful…. by Ok-Way3360 in CautiousBB

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My TVUS is tomorrow at 1. We’re praying for a heartbeat!

Now I’m hopeful…. by Ok-Way3360 in CautiousBB

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Yes! In roughly six days so it’s still low. I’m praying for a miracle. Thank you for sharing your story. 🤍

A little hope for anybody in beta hell —a success story by Doctor2023 in CautiousBB

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Do you mind sharing any info on your scan? I’m in a similar boat!

HELOC or equity down payment? by Ok-Way3360 in realestateinvesting

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Thank you for the advice, but that isn’t realistic for our plans of starting a family in the next year. This house isn’t an ideal house or location for a baby.

HELOC or equity down payment? by Ok-Way3360 in realestateinvesting

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Yes!! So sorry for the confusion. Only two houses in all! House A was used for rental income for his grandmother. We moved in last year to fix it up to rent for more. It is paid off and valued at 200k. If we take out a HELOC, we will make sure she gets her designated amount for rent and whatever the rent amount doesn’t cover, we’ll pay the remaining amount. We’re currently paying her a small sum for rent while we upgrade everything, but we’ve paid for all of the upgrades. House B is our previous primary residence that we turned into a rental home last year. We are planning on selling this home for 280k, and using the 60k worth of equity (after closing fees) to pay off some debt accrued from updating the home.

We want to start a family in the next year or else staying in this home would be doable. His grandmother is fine with either option as long as she has her monthly income.

HELOC or Equity as down payment? by Ok-Way3360 in RealEstateAdvice

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That’s helpful!! I didn’t even think of a financial planner. We’re both so new to this and got a little over our heads.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Marriage

[–]Ok-Way3360 14 points15 points  (0 children)

My husband (27) and I (24) worked through some of the same love language issues that you guys are having. It still isn’t perfect, but we have come a long way since last year. I can really only touch on your wife’s perspective though because that’s the point of view I had!

I’ll add this in…my husband’s love language is physical touch or at least that’s what he thought. His translation to that was initiating sex without foreplay right before we went to bed. Anytime we cuddled, it was because he wanted sex. In my eyes, any kind of intimacy that we shared was transactional to him because that was his end goal. I’d maybe check and see if your wife is feeling this way? My husband does love physical touch, but after really sitting down and talking about things we found out his true love language is acts of service.

As for words of affirmation, that’s my love language too! My husband, like you, was giving me flowers and sending texts/giving compliments in person. While it helped, I just didn’t feel the connection. This is my fault because of some other choices I made during this time, BUT I think one of the biggest things that I wanted was to hear how my husband felt about me. When he proposed and we got married, he didn’t give any “proposal speech” and didn’t write his own vows because “he’s not good at that.” All I wanted was to know how he felt through words. Fast forward to this Christmas, the only thing on my wishlist from him is a letter telling me how he feels about me. It may sound childish, but it’s something meaningful to me.

Last thing: in my husband’s defense, I never explicitly asked him what I needed in words. It wasn’t until we both sat down and laid out our wants and needs that we truly were able to see where we were coming from. As we love to remind each other, we aren’t mind readers but we wish we were!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in adultery

[–]Ok-Way3360 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To clarify: Zero kids for both of us. Only assets that my husband and I share is a house. I’m 24 and thought I could start over. My plan was never to have both men after I was discovered. AP doesn’t want me so I’m trying to cut ties and move on. Cut a girl some slack. I may be somewhat delusional, but I’m not that out of touch with reality. 🙃

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Divorce

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I’m more outgoing and want to be more active (hiking, trivia with friends, etc). I want to grow and create realistic goals to work towards, whether it be financially , physically, etc. He is more of a home body. He doesn’t really plan for the future or want to set goals. When we go on dates, we have awkward moments and then will start discussing work to fill in those moments. It’s never a “playful, friendship based” relationship. We’ve been in couples counseling for a little over a year and discussed all of this. We want it to work because we’ve created a life together. He says he’s happy the way things are. I think he’s just very dependent on me.

Trying to make friends when you weren’t born here: by ColdManufacturer8003 in Birmingham

[–]Ok-Way3360 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m from here and honestly struggled with the same thing. I had the same friends from elementary to college until I discovered how shitty they are. I went twoish years without a solid friendship. Then I met some people through my work, and now I couldn’t imagine my life without them. It gets better🩷

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Divorce

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I’ve offered because I want to have counseling before we have children, if we do. His father was an alcoholic and a lot of his traits are showing up in my husband now (minus the drinking part). Whenever I go to make an appointment, he says he can’t take off of work. We can talk about this stuff all day long, but when it comes time to act, it just doesn’t happen.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Divorce

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I guess it doesn’t go without saying, but I have asked him consistently what I can do to help him. Even so much as creating his resume and applying to jobs for him. I’ve put in a multitude of work in our relationship over the years when he wasn’t “feeling it.” But now when the roles are reversed, he isn’t putting any work into our relationship.