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and the difficulty many people
are having finding jobs, but we’re
young and our condo payment is
cheap,” she said. They had wanted a six-month emergency fund,
but “both of us just hit the point
where it was like, ‘We can’t do
this anymore. We’ve set ourselves
up as well as we can,’” Sarah
wrote in the post.
Their plan worked. Sarah im-
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we come back together again for
dinner and enjoy the evening,
whether that means going out
with friends or taking a walk,” said
Sarah. She turns in around 11, and
Jeff, still a night owl after all those
years working late shifts, usually
stays up until around 2, reading or
playing video games.
After years of spending so little
time together, it was strange at
“We still have our own interests and our own
activities, so it’s not like we’re spending so much
time together that we’re bored of each other.”
mediately established a successful
freelance career in digital marketing, then was hired by one of her
clients to work fulltime in a remote position with flexible hours.
Now Sarah wakes up around
6:30 and works through the morning, taking a break around 10 to
work out. Jeff gets up around 11.
They have lunch together, and if
it’s a weekday, Sarah does a few
more hours of work. Their home in
Madison, Wis., is a two-bedroom
town-house style condo, so when
she’s writing, Jeff can be on a different floor reading or handling
projects around the house. “Then
first to be together all the time,
but their slightly different schedules help them maintain their
own space. “We still have our own
interests and our own activities,
so it’s not like we’re spending so
much time together that we’re
bored of each other,” said Sarah.
Their stress levels had never
been lower, and in November
2012, Sarah got pregnant.
But it was six months later, when
tragedy struck, that the ch