Neighbor across the Street

Single again after my divorce no alimony or child support to pay. Having no children and ex taking a full cash settlement along with the house was the reason. It helped we both had good careers also, anyway at 33 I was free and clear as they say. I decided to relocate to a different state and start anew. My new home was on the edge of a highly sort after area, across the street from my new home wasn't as well thought of and house prices and demand was lower there, a mid-tier area as opposed to my new home area is high tier area. I had just scraped in you could say, once settled into my home and new job. I thought I should start socializing again, at my workplace there were several unattached women close to my age group. One (28) looked fantastic great figure and stunning looks, I was told by the other office Romeos she wasn't into dating anyone male or female. At work she was all work and no socializing, which seemed to support everything I had heard about her. Several months after my relocating to my home, I went shopping on a Sunday instead of my usual Saturday afternoon shopping trips. I met my standoffish work colleague; she was shopping with her mother who was in a wheelchair. I quickly realized the reason she didn't date; her mother required her daughter to be available every night. Home help was available workdays, and the daughter took over after work and all the nights and weekends. She wasn't against dating, just couldn't leave her mother alone while went on a date. She was quite friendly and as was her mother. Finding out I lived just across the street was also a shock at first. But understandable when you take in the mother's condition fort why I hadn't seen her outside their home before I found out where they lived. I got on really good with the mother straight away and once she knew where I lived, I was invited to dinner. That was the start of my seeing them both regularly and taking my colleague to work each day with me instead of her catching the bus. Which allowed us to get to know each other a great deal better and have time together with just the two of us. You could say my visiting their home for dinners and was the start of us dating. Because we became lovers without actually going out on a proper date. I became a regular visitor across the street. After six months I was thinking of asking her to marry me, but then I was told they had to move their lease was almost up and the new rent was quite a bit higher than it was under the current lease. They couldn't afford the increase and pay for the homecare at the same level the mother needed. My first thought was to have them move in with me. But I knew that would cause talk at work and in the neighborhood also, not that it would worry me. But it would cause trouble overtime I'd seen it happen before; local gossip can destroy relationships like rust destroys metal slowly but surely. Luckily, I'd already picked up a catalog of engagement rings. So, asking her to marry me then there wouldn't look as too desperate on my part. I asked her and pulled out the catalog to prove I hadn't acted on the spur of the moment and had really thought it thru. After a bit of thought she accepted my proposal, as their lease was almost up. I suggested a quick marriage a small wedding with a few family members and friends. We married a month later, the weekend their lease ended, we'd moved most of their belonging to my house in the week prior and they fully moved in on the Saturday morning, and we married that afternoon. As we were now married, I wanted to actually take my wife on a date, but first I hired a live-in housekeeper. Once she was settled in and getting on well with my mother-in-law we started going out. More dates followed and sometimes we took her mother with us and within three months of marrying my wife got pregnant. Baby boy due shortly, perfect new life I believe, and my wife and her mother are very happy with everything as well.