Everyone else seems to have a lovely wife, but I ended up with a complete fool.
She spent ages telling everyone how, after the wedding, wed simply buy a flatno problembecause our guests had all given us money, and our families would pitch in too. In reality, though, her parents made it quite clear: since shed decided, at twenty, to run off and marry a good-for-nothing estate agent who didnt even finish university, well, sorting out somewhere to live was our problem now. They actually laughed at our situation. In the end, I had no choice but to bring my wife to move in with my parents.
The trouble is, my brother already lives there with his girlfriend, whos pregnant, and space is seriously tight. My mum and dad hintedpolitely but firmlythat it would be best if we got our own place, even if it meant renting a small flat for now. But Id been planning to save up, get a mortgage, and buy us a house one day. My wife knew all about my plan and kept saying how much she wanted to move out. So what does she decide to do? She puts all our savings into shares.
And for what? To grow our nest egg.
My mum nearly passed out when I told her. Im heartbroken, honestly. The value of these shares keeps dropping, and we cant just sell straight away without losing even more money. So now were stuckeither we take a loss or sit on them and hope they recover, which might never happen. And meanwhile, all our friends have decent homes and families, and what do we have? Bloody shares.
Now my wifes crying, saying she wishes shed never listened to those people who taught her howand whereto invest, after taking a tidy sum from her for their advice. And all I can think about is divorce. My love isnt strong enough to keep me from resenting her for thisit feels as if years of hard-earned savings just turned to dust overnight.
If Im honest, our marriage was off to a shaky start from day one, and now things are as bleak as ever. This has only proved to me, once again, that marrying a daft girl has landed me in never-ending misery.
