I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can try to plan your career, but not marriage.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
Advice to persons about to marry - don't.
Marriage is a linchpin in many women's lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.
Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father.
I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.