K lost the "dream job"at big pharma that he had started only a month earlier, the day after he'd mailed the first mortgage payment on our new old (and fairly expensive) house. I called it "The American Dream, Interrupted" in my blog post.
He got re-hired back temporarily and then later left big pharma to go back to academia. However, this was an event whose greatest consequences were felt only a year and a half later. It was only in March 2009 that despair overcame us when we could no longer afford the mortgage payment.
We managed to renegotiate with the lender and thankfully sold the house really well in 2010 (after investing nearly 30K dollars on it, though, on top of the 30K in down payment. We came out with 10K, precisely what we started it back in 2000 when we bought our first house... sigh...).
Living and learning. This was the hardest experience of our lives so far and we learned a lot from it. It made us stronger, wiser and much less innocent. :(
Five years have passed and I barely remember this ever happened. That's good and how it's supposed to be. I think I'm ready to face other challenges that the future may bring.
post inspired by A's comment on fb.
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