Creating a new home together
So here is the picture, you have gotten divorced met someone new and you make the decision to move in with one another. Sounds perfect right? There is a catch. Chances are when you move in with someone who also just got divorced you will be moving into a home that that person had previously shared with their ex partner. To some people this may not be a hurdle at all, they may be able to move in and be happy and comfortable and that is the end of it. This was not my experience. Before I had moved in I had painted the entire house, not because I wanted it all changed, but because the previous person who lived there had prepped the walls to be painted but never got around to painting it. The entire house was drywall patches, when I say the entire house I mean the entire house. I had not planned on painting everything but circumstance came up where I was here for a week with no kids, my spouse was working and I needed a distraction, so I...