Valerie:

The tension from all the stress dealing with the planning department has finally crept into our relationship. Until now we've been able to work together towards one goal and comfort each other when everything is looking down. Now the stress and lack of sleep has pushed us to two different places mentally.

While we both agree that the situation has been unfair to us and that we have been wronged it's how we want to deal with it that it causing the rift. Clayton wants answers and confrontations, I just want to never have to deal with zoning and planning again. I feel that pointing our finger at the planning department will sign the death sentence to our dream of a bar. He's letting his emotions run the course of lives and it's a big mistake.

How we act in the next three weeks will determine how this thing plays out. I hope we can keep it together and get it done...