Well this is it my love, I am leaving
you. I know that this is a shock and many of our friends will not
understand, but I am guessing that you are not really surprised.
We have been together more years than I
can remember and to me you have not lost any of your charm or beauty
but still I must go. Once I dreamed that we would be married, joined
together for the rest of our lives, but alas this is not meant to be.
So what has changed? You have. At one
point in time we were both poor and content to be so, we could be
together enjoying what life has to offer for little to nothing and we
were happy, but all of that has changed.
Even when I was a long ways from you,
my heart was always with you. Even when I knew I could be with you
for only a short period of time, I would rush home, into your arms,
rejoicing, and only be able to look forward to the day when I could
stay in your arms forever, but alas forever is not meant to be.
How have you changed you ask?
You have become greedy and selfish. You
have taken your beauty and used it against me, you have used your
charm to lure in other lovers to you who have given you a promise of
greater wealth, so to you, I am but a poor man and though I love you
more then my heart can express you are driving me away with a demand
for money and wealth that I cannot provide. I cannot compete with the
other lovers with their promises of gold.
I know that you won't miss me, others
have already come along to take my place, so I must go and watch your
beauty from afar, for I no longer posses that which you seem to need
the most; money.
The above has nothing to do with me and
my wife. This, instead, has everything to do with New England.
We are moving back to North Carolina,
and will not likely return, other then to visit, because it is simply
to expensive for us to live here anymore. With every tax rate raise
and higher prices for damn near everything, this entire region of the
country has left us struggling to keep our heads afloat. We have
crunched numbers and cut back on everything, to the point of there
being no where else to cut.
Some have suggested that my wife should
go back to work, well I have a surprise for you, and she has kept
this to herself for her own reasons, she has been getting paid to
take care of me for the last three years through the VA. This pilot
program is likely to end this next year, it won't change the care
that I need, but because I am not as bad off as some others, and
while congress gives billions of dollars to nations that hate us,
rather than taking care of it's own poor , we will likely loose that
money. Second whats the point in her going back to work if the only
reason for it is to stay in such an expensive area? We can't do much
of anything now, so nothing would change.
So we are moving back to North
Carolina. We spent 4 years there and still have friends that live in
the area and a few others that are heading back that way as well. The
cost of living is much less expensive, the weather is more favorable
to my bones, and the housing market is much better, and because of my
disability rating I will be able to get a huge tax break on housing
and I will have access to base facilities. Over all this will be a
good move for us.
Some folks who have been notified about
this have become angry, Why? Because we are attempting to do what we
can to survive? Because we are tired of living on the edge, filled
with more stress than is healthy? If you believe that I am being
selfish, you are right! I am selfishly in love with my wife and
children and I want the best for them and I can't provide it here.
So there it is, we are going and folks
can either accept or or not, it's your call, but we are going.
