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OldBaldy1701E

(6,351 posts)
Sat Nov 25, 2023, 07:43 PM Nov 2023

The darkening skies.

Well, I am trying my best not to freak out right now. It seems the guy who owns the place where we live came back from Thanksgiving and informed me that he and the dude he says is his boyfriend are now engaged. Wonderful, right? No. Because, now I expect him to come to my hubby and myself and inform us that we will have to move out now that they are going to be getting hitched. To make a long story short(er), thanks to my own health taking a nosedive, my hubby being screwed over by his employer, and COVID, we are not in any position to be moving anywhere. We moved half way across the country because we were misled by both him and the company my husband works for. I cannot do anything about this. I do not have magic powers. I cannot 'hit someone up for help'. I told my husband that moving this far away from any safety net was dangerous. (We know no one here except the guy we moved in with and we both come from families who cannot do much to help us in this situation.)

I can tell you this... I will NEVER ignore my instincts or my gut feelings EVER again!

(WTF are we going to do? I KNEW something like this was going to happen! As an astute writer once said, "The boy who cried 'wolf' is a cautionary tale. But, what if the boy had been right the entire time and everyone had just ignored him?"

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The darkening skies. (Original Post) OldBaldy1701E Nov 2023 OP
I have no earthly idea about any sort of solution for you. All I can do is offer my sympathies. CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2023 #1
Thanks Peggy. OldBaldy1701E Nov 2023 #2
First place to start--- Bayard Nov 2023 #3
This is my fear XanaDUer2 Nov 2023 #4

CaliforniaPeggy

(152,097 posts)
1. I have no earthly idea about any sort of solution for you. All I can do is offer my sympathies.
Sat Nov 25, 2023, 07:55 PM
Nov 2023

I gather that you don't have a lease? So you have no recourse with your current landlord.

I am so sorry that you find yourselves in this situation.

Perhaps some resolution will happen and bring you hope.

And I hope that some other DU'er will answer with sound advice.

OldBaldy1701E

(6,351 posts)
2. Thanks Peggy.
Sat Nov 25, 2023, 08:24 PM
Nov 2023

I know how weird this situation sounds. All I can say is that it was not my idea. What was that line from the Star Trek TNG episode where they saved a group of Irish colonists? The daughter gets in Picard's face and says, "You men draw mug and solve all the ails of the world, but it always falls to the women to make your grand dreams come true!" That keeps being my position. And, I cannot save us from this one.

XanaDUer2

(13,872 posts)
4. This is my fear
Sun Nov 26, 2023, 06:14 PM
Nov 2023

We sublet and every year, I worry well be removed from our relatively cheap, good-locationed unit. Its coming up again in the Spring.

I hope you're not removed

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