Women & Men

I'm so glad I'm married to Amy!

I'm grateful for the relationship I have with my wife.  I've seen and watched a lot of relationships over the years.  I've found it easy to be envious of the ones that look like they are so great.  And it's easy to pity the really obvious bad ones.  But there are so very many that aren't so easy to identify.

"Coming to realize you're wrong is kind of like coming to realize you're sick.  You fell bad long before you're ready to take your medicine." --Norman MacLean

Looking back, boy, I missed it.  Sometimes we can be too close to a situation to see it for what it really is.  I once changed supervisors at work only to find weeks later why the relationship had been to horribly painful.  I had just chalked it up to his poor social and communication skills (and they were REALLY bad!).  But with the advantage of hindsight and a few weeks distance, I was able to clearly see what was wrong.  

It was his wife!  It wasn't immediately clear as to why he was so rude, curt, and controlling.  Until you looked at his wife.  It wasn't that she was an overachiever, uber "organized," or some kind of super mom.  It was that for her to be so,  she had to emasculate him!  And since he had no control over his life at home, he had to come to work and overcompensate on all of us!

I'm so very blessed to have a wonderful wife that doesn't need to step on me in order to have any achievement of her own.  She's a wonderful wife, mother, and all-around good friend.  And she does it all while trying to be of service to others.  It's just so great to be married to such a wonderful woman.

I Always Love My Wife!