You can coast for awhile, but how you coordinate their needs in the third quarter will determine your fate. Boatless but dreaming, the untarnished luster of your perceived ideal will magnetically distort your reality compass. If you don't bail out here, you're hooked. As the current of dreams grips your vision and propels you willy-nilly, eyes on the carrot, through the rapids and back eddies of unnavigated circumstance, the once meaningful tangibles of possessions, security, and Establishment values will slough away. 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.