I’m angry that they have so much space and a garden while we struggle in a poky,rented London flatWe are a lovely and mostly happy family of four renting a smallish two-bed flat with no garden in London. final summer we were supposed to wobble to the Midlands, into my in-laws’ domestic. They had agreed we could wobble into their three-bed house and that we would rent them somewhere smaller in the area. final year, and I went up to stay with them and it soon became obvious they had changed their minds and started showing me local listings for places we might like to rent for ourselves (which would be too expensive,adding in my husband’s commute back to London). Despite the fact that months earlier everyone had discussed it like it was a brilliant belief. I was upset but managed to hold my cool and I cut short our visit by a week. Without my husband around, I could hardly argue, and his father finds confrontation upsetting. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com