Like many Filipino young couples (who got married Financially unprepared), my husband and I first lived with our parents and did not move out until our eldest child was ready for school. We thought it was the perfect time that we started planting our own roots, even if we were still struggling financially. Despite my mother’s insistence that we stay with her and Papa much longer, or at least find a place that is much nearer to them, I knew we just had to move out and mature. (Too bad we couldn’t find a decent place to rent near them.) We rented a house somewhere in Laguna. I wasn’t exactly happy with this decision, especially that we were going to live across my in-laws, and that does not really count as leaving and cleaving, does it? Anyway, I still tried to be optimistic and chose to see it as a new adventure, if not something that I had to do for my husband and daughters. I never visualized my family and me staying there for a …