Selling a house is hard...

[ejpint]

...but I don't think I expected it to be so emotionally draining!

To be fair, I'm way overtired from a week of prepping our house for the market, but...

H is putting together a video slideshow to post with our listings. He showed me what he has so far, and as our home came onto the screen, complete with "Our House" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the background, I lost it. Tears streaming everywhere.

We built this house, picked out nearly every detail. H proposed to me in the front yard while it was being built. We started our life together here.

There's really no point here except to say that this is a little harder than I thought it would be...

[dexteroni]

I'm sorry. I've heard many people say this when selling their first house. I'm sure it's even harder when you built it yourselves, together. You'll have many years of happy memories in your next house though.

[Roc A Bee]

I experienced the same thing when we moved. We had worked so hard on that house and DH proposed there. I cried more than once when we moved.

[krystee]

We are only renting ours out (but probably won't live here again in the future), but I am feeling some of the same emotions. I've been wanting to move for so long, so I had no idea that this would be so emotional for me.

[thatgirl2478]

Yep. I was 8 mo pregnant when we put ours on the market... not a good time at all!

[bunch]

I'm there too. Is sent dh the listing and he said "hmmm, that's a really nice house. Why are we moving again?"

[aspentosh]

I know I'll feel the same way when we sell our first house (we are renting it out right now). We came home from our honeymoon to that house, celebrated many things in that house, brought home our daughter in that house, etc. It's tough

[Mrs.Beagle]

Hugs.

I'm a renter, but I cried when I moved out of my first apartment without a roommate.

It'll be okay. You'll make lots of memories in your new house.

[Pom]

I loved our first house together. I can understand how you feel.

[kadams767]

I understand the feeling. I didn't even like our first place together, but I was so emotional when we left. It was still "our first place" and we put so much effort into it, not to mention the memories there. It was hard to imagine not living there anymore.

[ejpint]

I think I'm also extra emotional about it because most likely I'll be living away from my H part time while I start a new job and he stays behind to sell the house - the whole thing is going to be kind of rough.
It was really the damn musical score on the video that did me in. Damn you, Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)!