Back in the summer of 2010, I was wanting a cool car and considering a 2010 Camaro 2SS that a friend was faced with being repossessed. My wife talked me out of $600+/month car payments, and to find a project I could restore myself. She told me she had every confidence in my skills (based on my work with my Jeep), and that growing up she'd seen her brothers take off on a Saturday morning, come home with a non-running POS they'd bought for $100, and a few weeks later had something everybody wanted. They'd drive it awhile, then they'd get tired of it, sell it, and start all over again.
Even though mine has been one of those, 'keeps getting worse the more I dig into it' projects, I think I've finally turned the corner and things are coming together. She's been supportive and patient (especially in the wake of all the drama with the Auto Hobby Shop and me being gone every weekend since before Christmas), and it's appreciated.
On the flipside, she wants a swimming pool... and while we can afford it (aside from my project), she hasn't done the painfully simple things needed to make it happen (like decide what she wants, talk to the pool people, talk to the bank, etc...). I really don't care what kind of pool she wants or how much it'll cost (within reason, of course), I just want to write the checks and get back to working on my car. So I'm probably seen as not very supportive of her because I've been so busy with my own project.
