This is where the dream meets reality. Most folks spend a lot of time here struggling to adjust. When they finally get off, it's either happily and more wisely back into the stream, for a lifetime of living, or straight to the nearest dock, and back to existence. It is during this period of adjustment, when most of the 'couple confrontations', and life-style changes occur. A lot of wrong turns happen here.
Every couple usually finds their solution, but experience is a hard and impervious teacher.
If it's not too late for you, perhaps considering some of the following suggestions might save you some grief. Well, most women aren't as ready to give those up as you with your deluded smile and internal images of white sand beaches and bronzed wahines. In other words, she wants luxury, mate and comfort. Everyone has heard about feminine wiles. Let's borrow a page from their book.