Asking Eric: I broke up with her because she gave my house a surprise makeover

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Asking Eric: I broke up with her because she gave my house a surprise makeover
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She actually expected me to be happy about a big TV and maroon walls.

: I’m a 52-year-old divorced guy, no long-term steady relationship for a couple of years now, but for the last four months I was dating an early-40s lady, “Marie.”Asking Eric: I thought I escaped the hoarding house but it hangs over my life

One Saturday, I came home from work to find that Marie was unexpectedly in my house, had repositioned all the furniture in my lounge room, installed a large wall-mounted flat-screen TV, and painted two of the walls a deep maroon! Marie’s clearly been watching too many of those surprise home makeover shows. But Joanna Gaines she is not.

I’ve been saving up to buy a house and hopefully will start looking in early 2025. And it makes me scared that I may have to take the step alone.

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