You do what my ex-bf and his current gf do, buy a log cabin on 9 acres with a separate barn/garage and shack up together. :smlove2:
She's about 8 years older than him and has been married and divorced. It was apparently very nasty and she refuses to get married ever again. He's not happy about that, coming from a fairly traditional Italian/Jewish family; but he loves her so thats the compromise.
He's a mechanic and likes to buy clunkers and fix them up so the heated barn was mandatory. She used to work for GM and judges classic car shows in her spare time. It's a match made in heaven.
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