I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I suppose, unconsciously, I used all my wives to further my journey up the ladder.
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
I was really a little housewife with two small children, and I had a husband who really didn't want his wife to work. He didn't like the competition. That's why I'm not married to him anymore.
Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.
My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.
I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.
One of the things that concerned me was the way the system operated: the wife who went out to work got a full personal allowance, but the wife who was working at home got nothing. This was particularly hard on wives who gave up work for a time to bring up children.
It was always the cliche of men leaving their wives for younger women. The playing field is sort of even now. Women make their own salaries. They can do the exact same thing and can have a younger man.
I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.