DEAR ANNIE: My husband and I have been together for 34 years, married for 25 of them. We both brought children from previous marriages into the relationship; he has two and I have two. A week before our wedding, he surprised me with a prenuptial agreement. I had no time to consult an attorney. The choice was to sign or cancel the wedding. At the time, he owned three properties, and I owned none.

One of those properties became our marital home, where we have lived for the past 33 years. I always wanted us to buy or build a home together, but he insisted we already had “our” home. Over the years, I contributed to this house as if it truly were ours. I paid half of the property taxes, helped with major expenses like a new roof, air conditioning system, duct work and fencing, and treated it a

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