Oh, yeah, I sat W down tonight and re-did our budget. I added another column next to the prior budget we had been working on showing how we'd support two households with two incomes.
We went through the cuts that we need to make now, while she is out of work, and she could see in black and white how far away she is from affording her own place. In addition, I made the statement that the legal fees to all the professionals we're using will be deducted from our individual equity shares. She objected saying that's not what we agreed -- I corrected her that it was exactly what we agreed with the lawyers). This may all seem like minutia to y'all, but the net-net effect of all of this is that she is starting to get the picture that she is going to be miles and miles from owning her dream condo.
