As I rode down the street with him to see what he'd bought, I was in shock when...

As I rode down the street with him to see what he'd bought, I was in shock when he pulled up in front of this tiny white box of a house. I mean --maybe eight hundred square feet. There was no cute front porch. The yard--front and back--was all weeds and overgrown bushes. When he opened the front door on that cabin-size house, I could see it hadn't been touched in thirty years.
She cried. Again. That was sort of her thing during year one. If we ever write a marriage book, chapter 1 will be called, "She cried.