This week on Call Your Sister, Joy and I are talking about moving out for the first time. Neither of us went to college, so most of our “learning to live on our own” happened inside marriage, and we’re sharing all of it.
Joy got married at 19 and spent the first six or seven months living in an RV beside the house she and Austin were still renovating, cooking lasagna in a crockpot. She tells the story of the cherry-wood bed frame Austin and his dad built from scratch, which turned out so tall it came up to her armpits while she was very pregnant. I share what newlywed life was like in Laredo, Texas, a mile from the Mexican border, with dollar tacos, a Bible study in our small apartment, and the day we moved out because of a cockroach problem from the neighbors.
We also talk honestly about the adjustments no one prepared us for. We were both so agreeable early in marriage that we barely knew our own opinions, and we talk about how our husbands encouraged us to speak up. We get into our first experiences with money, from my fear of not having enough to Joy’s learning how to do the books with her mother-in-law’s help, plus the times the electricity almost got shut off because we each thought the other had paid the bill. If you’re a newlywed, getting ready to move out, or looking back and laughing at your own first-apartment mistakes, this one’s for you.
Topics covered: moving out for the first time, newlywed life, first apartment, adjusting to marriage, marriage and money, budgeting as newlyweds, learning to cook, making friends as an adult, living in an RV, young marriage, sisters podcast
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00:00:00 - Introduction: Moving Out for the First Time
00:00:59 - Joy’s First Home: Renovating and Living in an RV
00:05:29 - Adjusting to Marriage and a New City
00:08:07 - From the First Apartment to a Home
00:11:44 - Learning to Live Together and Communicate
00:16:21 - Adjusting to Finances as Newlyweds
00:21:55 - Learning to Manage Bills Together
00:27:50 - Grocery Shopping, Cooking, and Expectations
00:30:54 - From Adventurous Cooking to Family Meal Routines
00:36:57 - What We Wish We’d Learned Before Moving Out
00:38:54 - Learning Independence as Adults
00:43:25 - Final Thoughts and Sign-Off
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