I Was Asked to Leave the Home I’d Been Paying For, and I Made a Quiet Decision the Next Day.

I’d seen the rent—$5,600 a month, more than twice what I’d been paying for my studio in Queens—I’d nearly choked. But Amy had looked at me with those wide eyes and said, “Don’t you want us to have a nice life?”

So I’d signed the lease. I’d set up automatic payments from my checking account. I’d budgeted and cut back on everything else so we could afford continue reading …