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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I assumed my married life would be similar to my parents and my family life growing up. I would live in a nice single family house in a nice neighborhood. I would have 2 cars and a dog. I would decorate the house for Christmas. I would have nice furniture.

Well...I married someone with whom our combined income does not make that life feasible in Northern Virginia. We rent an apartment and cannot afford to have nice furniture. It now seems that that life will never come by to us. I am trying to make peace with it. Anyone else in similar circumstances?[/quote]

Why would you assume this while not choosing a career with matching salary and making sound financial decisions?[/quote]

NP here. Things are totally different now. My parents worked but didn’t have high earning jobs, and somehow still had a nice home and 2 cars and 2 kids. The same jobs today would not buy that same lifestyle, at least not in this area.[/quote]

Yes, it's both true that OP's situation is probably out of her control *and* that she is looking at her situation the wrong way (blaming her choice of husband, feeling entitled to a certain lifestyle, feeling like this *has* to happen in NOVA, etc). [/quote]

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