T’s hosting a conference this week and I get to be the professor’s wife. I must admit this is a role I was born to do – doll up, put out a spread, and entertain!
I could have been one of those wives to a big important business man husband but somewhere a long time ago even though the life I thought I was going to have was one where I was a contributor not a leader got sideswiped by the fate of personality. I became the big important business man. Who knew? But I also was the wife. No wonder I am so exhausted all the time.
A friend was just telling me she was being bugged the other day by an insurance sales person who kept calling while she was juggling her three kids. He kept asking for her husband. The first time she said she was his wife. Then second time she said she was him. The third time the guy asked are you him or her? She said, “I’m both.”