Hello, and help!!!

[MrsK]

I can sooooo relate to everything you wrote. My DH was a non-traditional DO student when we met. We married just before graduation. I was established in my career, owned a home, and had "grown up furniture." We've since become "medical nomads" having moved across the country twice and I'm now a SAHM with a toddler and an infant. I telecommuted for 2.5 years. (Hated it. Very isolating.)

FWIW, I think my DH had a more balanced life in medical school than he did during internship and residency. I don't think that medical training has to ruin your marriage. Regardless of any profession, a marriage is lots of work.

[Meenah]

Welcome!!!!

[MsSassyBaskets]

It's never really hit me until recently how fortunate, and honestly spoiled, we were in our previous lifestyle. We had 5 years of post-college unmarried togetherness, living in a big city within stumbling distance of all the dining and entertainment we could ever want, enjoying our mid-20s with no major commitments but each other and our jobs. Now I'm just grateful that we had all that time together before this started! I think I'm somewhere in between the "anger" and "depression" stages of grief for my former life. Not quite to the productive stage yet.

That said, I'm still pretty optimistic and pumped for where it's all taking us in the long run. And I really do love trying out new cities, as long as they're not this godforsaken hellhole. In the short run, we have the last summer to look forward to! FH will become DH and he's going to be my grillmaster and homemaker for 2 months. Just going to enjoy it while I can.

[diggitydot]

You can do anything short-term. Med school and training feel like FOREVER, but it passes. The suck doesn't last forever. Well, some of the suck doesn't last, anyway.

FWIW, I was pretty sure that living in AZ was going to be my death. Off-the-charts weird neighbors + 8 million degree heat for 9 months out of the year + church mouse poor = me no likely. But it passed.

[MsSassyBaskets]

I could go for some 8 million degree heat about now. This cold, rainy, dreary spring is not helping my outlook any.

[diggitydot]

Hang in there.

[SuzySunshine]

Welcome! We just spent 9 months in Portland and I disliked the weather immensely however there are others on this board that LOVE the PNW so its all about perspective and experience. I hope you get to go somewhere you are comfortable with the next step.

[diggitydot]

Heh. Yep, we're native PNWers who are pretty tickled to be returning home.

[weeniegeniewife]

Heh. Yep, we're native PNWers who are pretty tickled to be returning home.

Seriously, what's not to love about our weather? I'll take mild winters and summers over hot and cold weather extremes any day. Not to mention our proximity to mountains, the beach, greenery, clean air...I could go on and on about my love affair with the PNW.

[Cinderella]

I'm loving the PNW too but sadly we'll probably have to move come residency time.

BTW!

[niener]

Dang, y'all are really making me want to visit the PNW now -- I've never been!

Welcome!

[peggyfromwastate]

Seattle or Portland on a sunny day --- best place ever. We just had a fabulous visit in Seattle over the spring-- from one point as we were driving on I-5 you could see the cascades to one side, the Olympic mountains to the other, and in front of you the Seattle skyline!!! Beaaaaautiful!!!

[JDAZ11]

I could go for some 8 million degree heat about now. This cold, rainy, dreary spring is not helping my outlook any.

Be careful what you wish for! 8 million degrees really isn't super fun! (of course it's a dry 8 million - right!).

Welcome! I'm getting married this summer (actually really freaking soon...ahhh!) too! Also no idea where we will be living a year after that. The whole location uncertainty thing totally sucks - wish I had better advice

Good luck with the wedding planning!

[diggitydot]

(of course it's a dry 8 million - right!).

Not during monsoon season it isn't. It's 8 million fucking degrees. And raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock.

[v-girl]

Welcome!