KansasTherapist: Money is an issue-I am a church musician so my income has always been limited-I only have 10 more years to retirement and need those years to build out my social security. We split paying the mortgage on the beach house- I am living in it as he lives and works in England. Long story short- we have talked about me moving out whenever we hit this wall of verbal abuse. He has told me I can stay in the house, as long as i pay my half of mortgage, which is reasonable for this lovely house. But I am lonely here in the house of our memories and the home i hoped we would retire in.But by staying here, I could save about $500 a month(that I would have to spend living elsewhere). am i kidding myself to think i can paint walls, take down our pictures and stay here in this house indefinately by myself-save some money-have a large space for when my kids visit? When we talked about this casually I told him his american brother in law would have to act as landlord and that he would have to stay away so i could rebuild my life-he agreed- he cannot come here for 5 years so i think it is a relief to him that i would rent it(also I will get a percentage of the sale if I stay)-at what price can you imagine I will pay emotionally to do this? Please advise