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when a couple has been together for a
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long time it is inevitable that some
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arguments may arise these could be about
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a variety of things like dwindling
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affection big decisions in life or even
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just about what's for dinner sometimes
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but hands down the most arguments will
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be centered around money and this is
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especially the case for a low-income
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family who have a child to raise this
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child needs to be the priority and
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sacrifices will have to be made so when
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this mother of a three-year-old little
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girl wanted to sell her husband's old
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car she never expected him to resist in
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the way he did but when she opened the
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trunk she quickly discovered the
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shocking reasons he had but before we
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Karen karen is a regular old Texan-Born
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woman who is living with her husband of
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5 years Andy and her three-year-old
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daughter Allison they live a simple but
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satisfactory life they may not have a
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lot of money but they try and make it
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all work and Karen is not the
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complaining type even though Karen and
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Andy do have a very good relationship
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she feels they do undertake a lot of
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things separately they are both very
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much still their own individual and like
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to sometimes have their space this has
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always worked well for the couple but
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what Karen will soon find out is that
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she knows a lot less about what Andy
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does in this time than she thought karen
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mostly spends her own time with friends
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and family allison often joins her in
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this but there have also been a lot of
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times she just stayed with her father
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they mostly just play together at home
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or go for walks when the weather's nice
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at least that's what they tell Karen
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while Karen is very open and talkative
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about what she does in her alone time
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Andy had always been a lot more
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secretive not in a way that Karen feels
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like he is hiding something but more in
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the sense that he doesn't discuss it in
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great detail he would say "I gone
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fishing," but would not talk about what
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he caught for example one of the only
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real issues she had with her
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relationship with Andy was that he was
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not very talkative in general she mostly
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had to keep the conversations going and
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while she was very happy with most other
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parts of the relation this did start to
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bother her more and more karen had hoped
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that maybe there would be a change in
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Andy's talkiveness with the birth of
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their daughter Allison but it only
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proved to make it worse andy really
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seemed to start to close off more and
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more towards Karen now she started to
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feel like it had a real negative effect
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on their relationship karen could not
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confront him about it she could not
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figure out if he was starting to fall
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out of love with her or if maybe he was
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hiding something she still had no idea
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what he did in the alone time and
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getting more information about it out of
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him felt like pulling teeth but there
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was a reason why Karen could not
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confront him with this she could not
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bear the risk of putting the
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relationship at risk in any way while
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Andy was not a good husband to her
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anymore he still was a very good father
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to their daughter Allison who he
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obviously loved very much and on top of
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that if they lost his income she would
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be in financial ruin but even with Andy
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still making money for the family their
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financial situation was getting
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consistently worse life was getting more
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and more expensive with their child
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growing and Andy was not making more
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money to compensate quite the opposite
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even he had started working a day less
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every week without Karen knowing she had
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found out when she was attempting to buy
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groceries one day near the end of the
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month and she apparently had
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insufficient funds karen always
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calculated how much she could spend
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without going over balance based on
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their income she had stayed well within
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this limit this month she confronted
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Andy about it he explained that he had
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felt very overworked in the last couple
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of months and felt like he needed more
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free time to himself to keep from
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getting burned out karen could
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understand this to some extent but what
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she had a real problem with was that
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Andy did not communicate this to her
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andy's reaction to this surprised her he
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got annoyed at Karen's anger they had
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always left each other their space and
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Karen had never before made such a big
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deal about keeping something to himself
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they got into a big argument over the
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back of this that ended with Andy making
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that comment that Karen was not allowed
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to comment on his work decisions if she
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wasn't working herself andy blamed Karen
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for not earning money herself this
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comment hurt Karen very much and she ran
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away from the confrontation many had
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been trying to find work for months now
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ever since their financial situation
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started to go south but she had been
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unsuccessful so far mainly because of
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her lack of experience and education
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when Karen was young her parents didn't
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consider her education to be important
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whatsoever karen was the youngest of
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five children and all her brothers and
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sisters did get a good education and
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eventually a job but her parents had a
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very different plan for Karen they had
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always intended for Karen to take care
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of them when they retired they didn't
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allow her to pursue an education and she
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had no time for a job either as she was
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always working in and around the house
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cooking and cleaning for her parents who
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thought they deserved the right to now
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just sit with their feet up this went on
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till Karen was 18 years old she was now
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at an age that she could start to make
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decisions for herself and the law could
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not just send her back home without
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question she had been planning for this
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day for a while without her parents
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knowing and moved out one day after her
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birthday her parents were furious with
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her but Karen did not care she was not
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coming back for the first couple of
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months she was mostly couch surfing at
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her siblings houses but this all stopped
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when she met Andy it was a case of love
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at first sight and she moved in with him
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only a few weeks after they first met
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karen had finally felt like life was
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smiling down on her and getting pregnant
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with Allison was just icing on the cake
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but she felt like everything was now
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getting jeopardized when Karen had
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calmed down a bit she came back
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downstairs to finish her conversation
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with Andy but he was no longer there on
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the counter was a note that stated
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"Sorry for what I've said i've gone
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fishing." Karen was upset that he just
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left without really resolving anything
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but an apology was already more than she
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would normally get over the next couple
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of weeks the financial situation of the
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couple started to get truly dire karen
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was trying to make a plan detailing how
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to get more money through the door
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without Andy having to work more she
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found that the only real way she could
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think of was to sell a couple of things
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she knew that Andy had an old car in
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storage that he wasn't using anymore he
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always told her that he kept it for
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sentimental value because it was his
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very first car karen had talked about
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selling it before but he had always
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declined it but this was before all of
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their current money trouble karen was
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sure that if she brought it up now to
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Andy that he would be a lot more open to
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the idea they really needed the money
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and with their three-year-old daughter
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in the world right now it should be a
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no-brainer for him but Andy's answer
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greatly surprised Karen andy was not
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open to the idea of selling his old car
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at all karen felt like she was giving
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good arguments but Andy wouldn't budge
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what frustrated Karen greatly was that
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he did not give a single good argument
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for his decisions karen got really angry
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with Andy again she asked him what the
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alternatives were but Andy could not
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give her any going to work full-time
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also wasn't an option for him and when
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Karen suggested it she was met with the
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familiar response that she could also
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just get a job their argument continued
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until their daughter walked in the room
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crying she had been awoken by all the
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loud yelling coming from downstairs and
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was afraid of what was happening karen
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picked up her daughter and brought her
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back to bed the discussion between her
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and Andy was done for now but not
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resolved whatsoever karen had been lying
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awake all night thinking about
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everything that had happened she was
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considering divorcing Andy and taking
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their daughter with her but where would
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she go they had no money and the
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struggle would only worsen plus there
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was a feeling that she simply could not
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ignore karen had made a decision she
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knew in her heart that she still loved
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Andy but she also knew that this
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situation could not continue on its
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current trajectory and when the sun
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almost started to come up again Karen
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had finally made her decision she would
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go to the storage unit when Andy would
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be at work today this without him
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knowing about it karen felt like this
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was the only right decision for her
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family at this moment she took the keys
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out of Andy's hiding spot and left with
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Allison when she got to the storage lot
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she was stopped by an employee karen
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assumed that because she had her
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husband's last name she could just enter
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his storage unit but apparently Andy had
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given instructions that only he could
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enter the storage unit karen tried to
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convince the employee and eventually the
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manager was called when Karen showed him
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that she was not only Andy's wife but
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that she also had the keys he allowed
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her access to the storage unit it seemed
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like he just was not in the mood for a
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big discussion and their standard policy
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was that anybody with the key and ID
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could enter anyway all this did make
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Karen think did Andy expect her to come
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to her and called ahead or did he have
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these instructions in place from the
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moment he got the storage unit what
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could be so special about this car and
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was it even about the car anymore the
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employee had pointed her in the right
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direction and after that he left her
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alone to explore the storage unit but
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not before giving her even more
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information that surprised Karen it
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turned out that Andy had come to her at
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least once a week for almost 3 years now
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he had no idea what Andy was doing in
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there he had been coming on the day that
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he wasn't working as well spending
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almost all day in his storage unit karen
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had asked the employee if he knew what
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her husband had been doing in there but
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he had no idea it was not their business
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what customers did with the unit as long
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as it was not illegal karen put the key
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in the lock of the storage unit and
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tried to open it the door was heavy and
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Karen was struggling to push it up even
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little Allison was trying to help karen
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switched on the light and the contents
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of the storage unit were revealed to her
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in the middle of the storage unit was
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the big black car she had thought about
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so much over the last could of days
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against the wall stood a sort of wooden
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construction that she recognized but
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could not place then she noticed
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something else karen had no idea what
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she was looking at she walked into the
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storage unit towards the large object in
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the corner that was being covered by a
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brown tarp but before she got there
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something else caught her eye that made
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her gasp for air and immediately tells
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Allison to leave the storage unit she
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noticed a handprint in red and streams
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of red that had been dripping down
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karen's first thought immediately went
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to the worst case scenario with her
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heart beating out of her chest she
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kicked the car trunk open for a second
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Karen could not make sense of what she
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was seeing but then she figured out that
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it was painting supplies stumped with
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confusion she turned around and pulled
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the tarps from the large object it
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turned out to be a big stack of canvases
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and as she looked through then she
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noticed that a lot of them had been
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painted already still very confused she
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decided to call Andy and admit what she
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had done and was planning to do there
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was no point in hiding it and she needed
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answers when Andy heard what had
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happened he let out a big sign and
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reluctantly started to explain the
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situation to Karen he had been wanting
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to be a painter for years but knew that
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doing it with all the financial trouble
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they had would have never been approved
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by Karen but he hoped he could make
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money by selling his art and had been
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trying to really get that going for
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three years now sadly unsuccessful for
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the most part but he recently hit a big
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break he was just starting to make money
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from it somebody had liked and shared
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his art online and the orders started
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coming in recently this is why he had
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started to work a day less he was
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planning on telling Karen when the money
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had come in karen felt a lot of emotions
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upon hearing this story but mostly
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relief they decided to talk more that
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evening and managed to work everything
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out the family managed to resolve
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everything Andy could start painting at
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home and Karen sold the car andy's
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paintings gained more and more
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popularity and he even managed to make
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up for the loss of income from working
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less and then some the family was
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getting back on their feet and they were
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happier together than they had been in a
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