Hi there! Since winter ended back in February-ish for us, there has been a lot of tension between Jeffery and I. This was caused by many things. He was stressed out at work. I was stressed out about school and the house. He'd come home and be angry that the house was a mess. I was so frustrated with the house that I had given up, and on days I tried to get it clean, I cried and yelled at couch or floor all afternoon. It was becoming a daily fight between the two of us, and a lot of hurt feelings. I couldn't keep up with the mud from our backyard. Cleaning the floors was a lost cause with three dogs. When the mud on the floors dried, it would be kicked up and turned into dust that collected on everything from the table to our dishes. It was the stuff of nightmares. This went on for a while. Jeffery ended up taking $1000 out of our emergency savings fund. (His words: Anything that is causing this much stress on our marriage is an emergency.) Before ...