Background

A little background... So my boyfriend Mike, and I have been together for 3 years in December. I say we have had a pretty awesome life so far. As far as vacations and the "materialistic" lifestyle goes. We have been to Cancun, Punta Cana, and Puerta Vallarta. We have also been to Vegas twice and a few other little road trips along the way, D.C. and Indianapolis for my birthday in 2011. We started off in an apartment for a year in North Royalton and then in 2011 we found an awesome house to rent with an amazing land lord and have been there since. 
In May 2012 the Horseshoe Casino in Cleveland Ohio opened. Mike came to me and asked if it scared me that he was thinking about becoming a "professional" poker player. I laughed and said you are not serious....I know you joke about it but that's no way to raise a family (that I was hoping to start in the near future). Anyways long story short he ended up quitting his job of 16 years! to play poker. I have to admit I was pretty scared about it all and it still makes me nervous. Granted his job was not making us rich but we still had a constant income and not a day to day win/loss ratio to worry about. We both went to work and came home with a paycheck at the end of the day. Not to mention all the other changes we would have as far as I work a 7-3:30 job and his schedule being almost completely different. No more eating breakfast together and dinners are once in a while together.
It's been about 7 months and we have done pretty well in adjusting even though we still have many arguments about the situation. Most may stem from my job and the situation there and once again my concerns with our future.
While I was on vacation the last week of December some things happened at work and I decided to give my 2 weeks. This was of course after talking this over with Mike and being told many time before this recent incident "just quit, it will all workout and we will be happier". Well here it goes my last day is January 16th. I am both excited (to leave this place where my co-worker and I are treated differently then our peers) and NERVOUS to be totally dependent on someone else. I have never had that aside from my parents. I have always been fortunate enough to be able to hold my own and contribute my part. Even though Mike has assured my things will workout and we will be fine it is hard to just let go. Obviously in my mind this is a temporary fix to the situation and I can hopefully use this time to find something I will enjoy doing. I know it will be nice for a little bit to not worry about getting up and going to work. I also have some ideas of how I will spend some of my free time but I am sure I will go a little crazy after a while and need to interact in a work environment again. So I will always be looking for something.
So to wrap up this first post I will try to keep on top of things and post how it is in my life journey as the girlfriend to a "professional" poker player. OUT