Posted By: need advice on 2008-04-14
In Reply to: more advice - FLMTFL

Your hubby sounds a lot like my fiance - though my fiance wasn't in the military - he has been on his own for over 20 years - raised his son himself and did everything from cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, etc. . He also has a hard time relaxing - always on the go. I'm just the opposite - I love to relax! lol. . I tell him sometimes - it wouldn't change the course of fate if washing the dishes just had to wait. . he doesn't think that is amusing. . his motto is get the work done first, then relax. . but there is always something that needs to be done, so relaxing is put off - He can finally - about once a week - sit down and watch a 2-hour movie with me. . and he loves playing with the new chocolate lab we just got- but most of his hobbies have to do with working on the farm or doing a fixer up project. . We are very opposite in those ways but seem to have a lot of other things in common, so I think we will be fine - just need to communicate a little better. . . As for the house - we are getting a lot of ideas from our Amish neighbors as far as what kinds of material we need, how much, etc. . we will have to find plumbing and electrical contractors - Amish aren't much help in those areas. LOL. . and my fiance can do a lot of the physical labor himself. We are figuring the cost of building the house will be about $70,000 and it should be worth over twice that just because of the money we are saving by having a lot of the material and doing some of the work ourselves. . plus, we have the land. So I think it is going to be wonderful - of course, he says we should live in it for about 10 years and then sell it and build another one - but I hate to move, so we will see. .

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