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Need advice, cannot afford a counselor!!
Have lived with SO for over 12 years. We both have enough money to live fairly well. We bought a house together 2 years ago that was tiny, only about 1000 square feet with the intent and understanding that we would reconfigure it and add on. I have a home business which takes up quite a bit of space and is currently housed in a room that is the size of a closet. I don't have an office to do my MT work, have to sit at the kitchen table. Many of the rooms in this unfinished, older house look like a storage unit because there are bins and stacks of items for which there is no place to put them. I have had my better furniture and smaller items in a storage unit the whole time we have lived here. My boyfriend's answer to my complaining about the cost of the storage unit in addition to not having my things here is "move them to the garage." I try to explain that that doesn't help much and things are being ruined being stored in garages or outside units. I tell him that at my age it is killing me to live in such a rundown house with most of my things in totes or in storage. I can't really entertain or have family or friends over here, it is too small and quite frankly too embarrassing to have people see how we live.
His usual comment on all of this is "well what do you want me to do about it?" and "it's good enough for me." I respond that I want him to care, and have some empathy. He usually walks off in the middle of any conversation about it. Tonight when I reiterated once again that I wish he could at least show some concern and maybe we could work on some ideas together he finally said, after I had started crying and stated that the house bothered me so much that some mornings I didn't even feel like getting out of bed he said "aren't you supposed to be working?" and walked out of the room.
How in heaven am I to deal with this beyond what I have done already?
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