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Don't build house on sand in water

My wife and i are living (renting) a house on the shore of this very tiny lake - more like a large pond in the country. We have bought this very tiny island in the middle of the pond that is flat and barely rises above the water. It appears that there was once a house on the island but that it has been removed - razed. I wonder why...

It is the last day of the month and our tenancy is over and we are supposed to move over the next 24 hrs to the island. But we are moving very slowly and have barely packed anything. It seems impossible that we could be ready for a move in time.

I start to pick up the pace considerably when i realize the deadline is impending and we have so much to do. I start packing as quickly as i can and making some progress. But inevitably not enough.

I go from room to room in the house packing as i go - in my normal efficient chore mode. In the kitchen i am putting some tiny, very dirty things in small plastic bags and throw a lot of things out. There are a huge number of books in the house but there are no strong boxes to pack them in - should i use inadequate ones? Altogether there are quite simply far too few boxes to pack everything.

The job is impossible on several fronts.

There is an older neighbour that might be able to help in some way, though i doubt it, and in any case i am unable to reach her.

I start to become concerned about the wisdom of moving to the island. The more i think about it the more it seems doomed to failure. 

If we build on this small sand island it seems inevitable to me that an event (like rain) will sooner or later cause the water to flood and water damage the house and the things inside it. Even barring that certainty the house will shift and sink built on this small amount of sand and be structurally damaged. I think we could bring in many loads of fill to try to ameliorate the problems i can see - but truly i know that the problems are fundamental and can't be mitigated on this tiny, vulnerable property. 

It is clear to me that we should not pour any more money into this bad decision of ours to buy this island. We will just lose anything more we sink into it.

I tell my wife about my thoughts and while doing so conclude that we should just use the island as a camping site and after some improvements to it resell hoping to recover our money. What a waste! What an idiotic decision on our part.

It is really most unfortunate because we are really in a better location in the old house. Everything is better and about to become worse. 

The island has no trees or plants at all. We will have no privacy from the eight houses built around the pond, each of which have some woods around them affording them some privacy and beauty.

Unfortunately it is inevitable that we have to move as circumstances of our own making are now impending upon us. I think maybe we can talk to the people scheduled to move in and buy ourselves more time. But in my heart i know this is also doomed to fail.

What a disaster. Where will we live in the meantime? How will we pack everything in time? Where will we store our stuff?

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Thoughts

This sadly prophetic dream appears to clearly outline the impending disaster of my marriage that cannot survive an ill thought out rescue by changing what we have had but are now on the eve of losing. We cannot build a new relationship (a house) on a small amount of sand in the middle of a pond.

There are no good options and if we are not careful we could lose everything.

By talking very seriously about the end of the relationship i have put in motion a chain of events that will destroy what we have had - but no longer do have.

Where are the children?

What can be done?

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