In all fairness, in their upper twenties and thirties, it's only fact that they've had to get jobs... unless they were to remain in their parent's home by the phone until they married. That they've had some promotion in their work is not in itself a bad thing. :~D None said they were necessarily devoted to careers over family, one even wondering if they should step down to admin assistant somewhere (I think that's what the article meant) until they found a mate, because they bought, for a moment, that maybe it was their corner offices that were the problem. It's not.... not for most men.
That said... There's a lot of people, men and women alike, who turn their job into their life, instead of a means to a paycheck so they can have a life. :~D
Well stated. For those men who are upset that women would have a good job, I gotta wonder what they expect us to do until they come along - sit at home eating bon-bons?
I'd gladly give up even my dream job for a family...but I gotta pay the bills until then. ;-)
Let me rephrase as I seem to have been misunderstood. Having a job or being successful does not disqualify a woman from being a wife. Holding that job or success as being more important than her husband and children does.
See post 218. This guy hits it out of the park. Deep down, for most men, myself included, marriage is about family and children. As stated previously on the thread, a woman's success is a non-issue. It doesn't matter if she is company president or if she is unemployed as long as she recognizes that her first and most important job is as wife and mother.
The impression I got from the original letter is that these women held their careers as worth more than their potential husbands.