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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr. Kaze" data-source="post: 2248097" data-attributes="member: 8848">Having a job with oodles of disposable income is fun.  Relaxing after a rough day on the job with a nice hit of hard liquor and playing with toys that I couldn't afford at any other point in my life is fun.  Having a wife who loves me for my mind, wit and body is fun.Realizing that you're spending as much on your wife's art-school tuition as you are on your mortgage and that between the two you're not going to see any significant disposable income for the next two years and that your job won't be improving your disposable income for the next two years and that you really wish you could've just stayed in Australia instead of coming home from your honeymoon... ahhhhh... not so much.Getting to "fun" as an adult is all about assessing your resources and aligning your priorities.  Stick close to people with the same priorities as you and put distance between you and people with other priorities.  (Don't marry somebody who wants kids, for example, if you consider children to be an 18-year loss of privacy and finances.)  Then figure out how far down your list of priorities you can get with your resources and go for it.What was that song line... "Can't complain but sometimes I still do"?</blockquote>