Hubby has a New Job
Gentle Hearts,
It has been three wonderful and productive weeks and a new chapter in my Life. I feel grown-up and finally reeking in the Independance that I have spent nearly three decades seeking. I am a new woman married with a Husband that loves and adores me totally! It was long overdue that I severed the umbilical cords that had me tied down to my family and my hometown. It is said that the Spanish has a strong hold on their children…they get invovled in their children’s activities long past the age of reason (18 for girls and 21 for boys) and once they marry the children go on to form their own families and still come round to visit their parents for meals and family reunions, yet my Mum went a bit over the top and I was conditioned into her over-protective and totalitarian fanatical ideas! She had such a dangerous stronghold on me and my time that she was totally dependant on me and my money! It took me some years before I realized how unhealthy a hold she had on me. Alex opened my eyes to the hold that Mum had on me and he saw that it was unhealthy for me! He saw the need for change and he unvelied Mum’s matriachle scheme. He rescued me from this unhealthy lifestyle and helped me cut the strings one by one!
Now I am a whole woman with a mission…my mission is to be his wife and make a life for myself alongside him here in Oxfordshire. I am making progress here and it feels wonderful! Tomorrow Hubby is starting a new job as a Quality Control Officer in the office of his old work colleaque who owns his own Data Capture Business. He starts nine O’clock tomorrow morning. This is a full-time job five days a week, nine to five O’clock and he’ll earn £15,000.00. I told my parents that he has a new job and to my annoyance the first words out of my Dad’s mouth was….’They pay him shit!’ Now I expected him to congratulate us and say something along the lines of ‘ Good for him!’ but immediately Dad critizes his new salary! What is it with this obssession that America has with earning big time dollars? Is it that they have to struggle to earn a living just to keep up with the Joneses? Is it that the cost of living in America has sky-rocketted over the last five decades? Alex and I are doing fine here. We have a house that is written in his father’s will and we’re welcomed to stay here a long long time. The mortage is virtually paid and we just have to cover a few bills here like eating, maintainance and a few other minor expenses. We don’t have the hassle of looking for a place to live or paying horrendous mortage or even putting up with unsavoury neighbors here!
Everything is laid out for Hubby here. His shirt, trousers and knickers are set for him to wear in the morning. I have a doctor’s appointment for a blood test tomorrow morning. I’ll be going with my Father-In-Law, Tony! So why do I feel all shook up? Can it be that I’m suffering Symptoms of Husband withdrawal? How can it be? He’ll be working just two blocks away and when I start working it’ll be five to fifteen minutes away! LOL! It must be that for ten months Hubby and I have been together non-stop twenty-four hours in an extended honeymoon!
I’ll live! It will do us good to get busy and we’ll have some money behind us to save and some money to spend on our dreams and Future!