Welp, the transmission that we had replaced a few months ago is acting up.

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. I think it was a three month thing.

It has been longer than that since we got it fixed. That repair cost my husband his only living family member as his sister loaned us the cash to get it fixed, then became a 'Karen' when we did not pay it back as fast as she thought we should have. (Bear in mind that she did not give us any kind of timetable. 'Oh, you can pay it back whenever'-type of thing.) His sister's hubby makes a ton of money in his work and they could have just bought us a new car without blinking an eye. But, they decide to go all Scrooge on us. He has basically gone no contact with her because of it.

Then there is the fact that my hubby was the one who wanted this car. I was not involved with the choice and he did not avail himself to ask me anything. He knows very little about vehicles and he never asked me anything about it. I am very concerned about how this is going to affect him. He is already massively stressed out from his job and how things are going here and now we are looking at not having a car while being in the health situation that I am in and living in this parody of the North Pole. Add to that the fact that we live in the twelfth most expensive economy in the country.

Fucking wonderful. I cannot do fuckall about it. Before we moved here, I repeatedly stressed that we were about to move 1100 miles from any backup we might need and how that was a very bold and dangerous thing to do. Given my AAD (Adjustment Anxiety Disorder... moving is a major trigger for it), he felt that I was overreacting.

And here we are.