My husband and I split up. He went to china to teach English and left me to it.I had no job a hefty mortgage and two grown up kids living with me.Needless to say i was at my wits end as to what I was going to do,I knew even if i worked seven days a week i couldn`t make all the payments by myself.
I was very stressed abd very emotional but then while absentmindedly flicking through the tv channels i stumbled on a program about two guys doing up a narrow boat.(I can`t remember what the program was called but the boat they were working on was called RECKLESS.) A light went on in my head then and i said to myself Oh my god i could do that, I could get rid of this money pit of a house and live on a boat.I was so excited and relieved that i had found an answer and set out to make it a reality.I have now been a liveaboard for just four weeks and love, it love, it love it.
The road to this point was rocky and it took me a year to get here.At the time that year seemed like an eternity and there were loads of times when i thought it wouldn`t happen at all. But now looking back on it,that year went very quickly and i was lucky that it only took that long. some people wait years.
My first couple of days on board were not the best and I couldn`t help but think i had just made the biggest mistake of my life.The boat was a mess i had no where to put anything and it was freezing.But it all came together I have learnt so much in the time that i have been here and now i wouldn`t go back to my house even i they were giving it back to me for free.