Almost the whole of our married life has been spent working together. For years we have been together 24/7, day after day. This is because I married a serial entrepreneur, just like his father. His father died during Mike's senior year in high school so I never met him. He was a man of many parts, however: worked in the East Texas oil fields, sold ski boats, sold marketing materials, had the Dallas Morning News delivery route for Jacksonville, Texas, for years, called square dances, as well as being heavily involved in his three sons' athletics. And probably a lot more than is listed here.
That is where Mike got the 'flexible' business gene and so he started out armed with a Business degree from Sam Houston University and we enjoyed learning many businesses during our 55 years together.
I hear couples who have enjoyed separate careers complaining about too much togetherness when they retire and surely they have legitimate gripes -- all marriage is built on daily victories over the nettles of little irritations. And the younger the couple, the quicker those nettles stab. But the longer the marriage, the less bothered we are by those little things. Keep your vows to one another. A man or woman who can trust the spouse with their faith in them has a treasure worth overlooking small aggravations,
Get the important thing centered in your mind and hold it there --- and everything else will be in place.
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