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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know if this belongs here or in the Relationships forum, but here goes.  Dh (military) and I are finally going to buy a house after 10 years of marriage. We've got two kids, so we're juggling schools, commute needs, floor plans that work for our family, etc.  All this in the hot NoVa market. It just seems like every crack in our marriage is getting magnified 100 times over!  I'm being the optimist, sure we'll find something, he's a pessimist, if we don't pick something now we'll end up homeless in July.  I just want a solid house with a good floor plan, he wants something "more than a box" with some kind of HGTV worthy features that he'd be proud to show his friends and family.  I'm the tightwad with money, he wants to blow up the budget (but stay within his BAH, which is its own conflict).  It just feels ridiculously hard to even discuss it - one day he's pushing me to pick something from the first five houses we've seen, two days later he's rejecting my first choice to instead argue for a house that seems like a total disaster to me.  And instead of just saying he doesn't like my first choice, he goes off on a tangent about it having a sump pump, as if we have to reject every house that has one.

Its driving me nuts!  Is it this hard for everybody?[/quote]

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