3 important lessons I learned from 6 years of marriage (The second on is crucial)

3 valuable lessons I’ve learned over the past 6 years:

This year, my wife and I will be celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary.

We got engaged in March 2018, and by June of that year, we were already planning a December wedding.

We explored venues, created a budget, and made all the necessary preparations.

We wanted to splurge, invite many guests, and throw a good party.

But then something happened.

For months, I had been conflicted about staying in the PhD program I was enrolled in at UC Irvine.

At the end of August, I finally decided that I’d leave the program (I will share more about this another time).

Leaving wasn’t easy. I was anxious about losing my graduate stipend and not having a job lined up.

After I left grad school, my fiancé (now wife) and I had two choices:

-Choice 1: Stay in California, find work, get married, and figure it out.

Staying in California meant finding any type of work ASAP, so we could keep up with the high cost of living and afford the big wedding we’d been planning.