Name: I lost money when I got married [CC]
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T18:40:13.000Z
Duration: 18 min 21 s
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Past simple

This tuesday my wonderful wife and I celebrated our three year anniversary

[singing] I lose my breath whenever I see you

[transition sound] what, you didn't think there would be a cheesy montage?

trust me, I have more where that came from

we actually have an entire Instagram dedicated to our love

if you enjoy adorable and occasionally quite cheesy lesbians

we met in 2014, the year that same-sex marriage,

which - by the way - is just called marriage, became legal

but this video is actually about marriage equality in that sense

no, today I'm actually going to tell you about how I was made to choose

between marrying the woman I love, or half my income

because apparently disabled people don't count as full humans in their own right

we're just meant to be other people's burdens

subscribe if you too enjoy getting angry at the government

because I have all too polite British rage,

and I need to smile-scream my way through it

I should preface this video by saying that I'm both very British

we weren't shunned or arrested when we came out

and I've never been in fear of my life from homophobic idiots

because, let's be honest here, homophobia is merely a lack of information and education

I'm also very privileged, as you'll find out at the end of my story

because I didn't end subsequently starved to death

I met Claudia a week before I graduated from university

in fact we had our second date the night before my graduation ceremony

going to that date with her was more important than resting up for the next day

it was obvious that there's something special and electric about her

and our connection just made my heart clench everytime I thought of her

and caught the breath in my throat when she was nearby

so I could manage my disability and poor health better

I've been working for a local TV station that was just set up in my city

it wasn't a lot of work, just kind of the odd filming or presenting job here and there

for new segments that would then go out online

and add just kind of tastes of the programs to come

the station planned to go live about a month after my graduation

and they'd offered me a guaranteed job with them

I was leaving university and walking straight into a media job that I really wanted

whether that be in front or behind of the camera or probably both

I love creating stories in a really kind of visual format

I'm working on becoming the next Lucy Worsley

please tell me if you're also a Lucy Worsley fan so I don't feel like a loner

anyway, I knew I didn't have all the skills yet

I want to get better at editing and filming and timing and presenting, obviously

and I loved the idea of being out in the workforce

since getting ill as a teenager I'd kind of just assumed that wasn't ever going to be an option for me

and to be fair at one point I thought that living wasn't going to be an option for me

so the TV station: it was really small and really...underfunded

but I knew that it was a great starting point

they were also really flexible and didn't mind when I said that I could only work part-time

so I went from being a student, with a student maintenance loan

which is a thing that pays for your food and your rent while you're a student

but you then have to pay it back with interest

and a maintenance grant, which is money you don't have to pay back

because the government realised that not all of us start on a level playing field

and those of us who have further to run up the hill need better shoes

aye, being a disabled student is even more expensive than the normal financial drain that is further education

I wasn't paid for my work at the TV station for the first four months I think

and my only source of income was my disability allowance

which I had been receiving since I was seventeen and was - I think at that time - about £250

for food, bills, including council tax, and disabled body maintenance stuff

including caffeine and toiletries, which I get through really quickly and you don't need to know why

let's just take a moment to point out that the food I needed to buy

as someone on a medically restricted diet that mainly involves protein - it's really expensive

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