Lawrence

Um, and then we had, we had both recently, you know, ended previous relationships and kind of found confidants in each other and quickly snowballed into a relationship and, you know, same hobbies, same interests, same, you know, everything.

And, um, we got married in May.

I had brought a lot of,

baggage into the relationship, um, financially, um, and entered, entered this marriage, not really standing on my two feet, just trying to try and play catch up with life and bad decisions in the past.

Um, and everything was great up until planning the marriage.

Um, our relationship had kind of gotten a little rocky there for a little bit.

And I kind of

alluded it to, you know, just the stress of planning a wedding and planning a marriage.

And, you know, post-wedding, you know, we had that little honeymoon phase and things just never really ironed themselves out.

And so we started going to couples counseling at the beginning of June.

And

First session was great.

I made an advent.

I'm all in.

Just personal values, upbringing, all in to work on your marriage and lean into it.

I was all in.

Our therapist gave us homework.

We came back the following week and she dropped a bombshell that

She had gone back through a money tracking app that we had started doing together to kind of manage finances, kind of build a budget out.

And she had found where I had basically paid for porn.