A Brief Re-introduction
I’m sure there are many active users that haven’t really seen me around as it’s been some time since I was last actively posting and commenting. So as a quick re-introduction:
The member her at the Mansion known as Growing Curious is my fiancee, and we have been on-again-off-again with chastity since almost the beginning of our relationship. We met in college. I’m a bit older than she is as I was in the Army for a spell before starting school, but we’re both mid- to late-twenties.
It was around this time last year when I stopped being so active at the Mansion. At that point GC and I were not yet engaged, she was recently unemployed, and I still had a little more than a full semester left for my bachelor’s.
Since then:
Late last winter/early spring we took a vacation to Costa Rica and during the trip I proposed, so now we’re engaged and have a date set for the wedding next year. I finished my coursework for my degree in June and received my diploma in August.
Meanwhile, GC had been interviewing for jobs and took a position at a small company in Boston in July. I was looking for a job as well. I ended up accepting a position at a large firm about a mile away from where GC works.
So there we were, both college grads recently employed on the way to a (hopefully) successful career. And we had each other, madly in love and engaged to be married. I mean, that’s what almost every person our age wants more than anything: A good, fulfilling job that pays well and someone magnificent to share life with.
I was living with my parents about 50 miles north of Boston, in New Hampshire, and GC was a little closer to Boston but still quite a distance away and living with family, as well. We looked for a while and then found a wonderful apartment for decent money much closer to the city, but still far enough away that I didn't feel claustrophobic.
(Kind of off-point, but, before even starting our search for a place we sat down and listed what we wanted in an apartment, and then set about prioritizing. It had to be within a 30 minute commute to Boston, had to have off-street parking, but we could compromise on type of flooring, dishwasher/no dishwasher, etc. The place we found ticked all the boxes for “must” and almost every “want” as well. Amazing, really. I still can’t believe how lucky we got.)
So in mid-June when I finished my coursework for my degree our position was: unemployed, living separately with family, no real employment prospects, no idea when the next break would come our way and just hoping we could start life together soon. Three months later we had our own place together that had everything we wanted in an apartment and for the money we could afford, and were both employed at excellent, sound and growing companies.
I’m sure there are many active users that haven’t really seen me around as it’s been some time since I was last actively posting and commenting. So as a quick re-introduction:
The member her at the Mansion known as Growing Curious is my fiancee, and we have been on-again-off-again with chastity since almost the beginning of our relationship. We met in college. I’m a bit older than she is as I was in the Army for a spell before starting school, but we’re both mid- to late-twenties.
It was around this time last year when I stopped being so active at the Mansion. At that point GC and I were not yet engaged, she was recently unemployed, and I still had a little more than a full semester left for my bachelor’s.
Since then:
Late last winter/early spring we took a vacation to Costa Rica and during the trip I proposed, so now we’re engaged and have a date set for the wedding next year. I finished my coursework for my degree in June and received my diploma in August.
Meanwhile, GC had been interviewing for jobs and took a position at a small company in Boston in July. I was looking for a job as well. I ended up accepting a position at a large firm about a mile away from where GC works.
So there we were, both college grads recently employed on the way to a (hopefully) successful career. And we had each other, madly in love and engaged to be married. I mean, that’s what almost every person our age wants more than anything: A good, fulfilling job that pays well and someone magnificent to share life with.
I was living with my parents about 50 miles north of Boston, in New Hampshire, and GC was a little closer to Boston but still quite a distance away and living with family, as well. We looked for a while and then found a wonderful apartment for decent money much closer to the city, but still far enough away that I didn't feel claustrophobic.
(Kind of off-point, but, before even starting our search for a place we sat down and listed what we wanted in an apartment, and then set about prioritizing. It had to be within a 30 minute commute to Boston, had to have off-street parking, but we could compromise on type of flooring, dishwasher/no dishwasher, etc. The place we found ticked all the boxes for “must” and almost every “want” as well. Amazing, really. I still can’t believe how lucky we got.)
So in mid-June when I finished my coursework for my degree our position was: unemployed, living separately with family, no real employment prospects, no idea when the next break would come our way and just hoping we could start life together soon. Three months later we had our own place together that had everything we wanted in an apartment and for the money we could afford, and were both employed at excellent, sound and growing companies.
