"At almost 70, with my son grown and building his own creative life, I realized the home I had poured myself into for two decades no longer supported the future I wanted. For almost 20 years, that house looked like the picture of stability. Teal doors, a tire swing, and a sunny studio beside the garage. It was where I raised my son as a single mother and built my photography career."
"The house no longer supported my future. What once felt like a comfortable sanctuary had become a moneypit, its growing debt reminding me daily that I could not afford the life or the freedom I wanted. I had built a home to raise a confident and independent child, and I had done that, but holding on to the house was keeping me from evolving into the next chapter of my life, a chapter filled with creative possibilities that debt made impossible to pursue."
At almost 70, with my son grown and living independently, I recognized the longtime home no longer supported my future. For nearly two decades the house had symbolized stability with teal doors, a tire swing, and a sunny studio where I built a photography career as a single mother. Rising maintenance and debt turned the house into a moneypit that prevented pursuing the freedom and creative life I wanted. I photographed meaningful belongings, donated most items, and sold the house. Selling freed finances and emotional space, allowed necessary dental work, travel, rebuilding confidence, taking a new job, and launching a creative chapter.
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