I was age 27 when met first ex lasted 2 years no kids.....were saving for a house down pmt......oh well......she wanted to marry some lawyer she met....her mother spent some 20 grand on the wedding.....nuff said.....
second ex I met in '77 age 33 as I look back, she had a dawg in the apt. and her ex managed to walk into the highrise apt, and slip some poison food under the door, killed the dawg.....I was thinking of giving up on the relationship before that, but so I felt sorry for her and she got another cat to keep company with the existing one, so I wound up taking care of it in my apt......
so we bought a townhouse in '79 and then a regular tract house in '80-81? something so then two kids .....but by '88 she bought me outta the house and I moved across the freeway to a wonderful mechanic's house 3 car garage and all concrete back yard....PARTY TIME!!!!!
sold it in '97 and moved south......married wife now here, in 01 be 19 years shortly......