Once children are involved if your passion is, for example, base jumping off tops of buildings, you will probably be asked to dial that back a notch, no matter how supportive and loving your wife is. You might be asked to not work weekends. Maybe golfing every weekend makes it hard for her to manage the kids on her own and she asks you to go earlier in the day or maybe not every weekend. Whatever. If people want to do whatever we want without any pushback ever, don't get married. If you do choose marriage, spouse gets a vote or at least gets to bend your ear over it. And frankly that cuts both way no matter what the shrew who wrote the original article thinks.
I don’t disagree with you. But that’s not really the point. To stick with your example, if one is an avid golfer, and the other insists that the clubs be put away forever ... one has a problem. To further stick with the example, a reasonable arrangement might be for the golfer to dial it back while the kids are really small, then as they get bigger teach them to golf. Everybody wins.
Well said. When married, both husband and wife have to make sacrifices for the greater good. If they are mature adults, both will make those sacrificies without bitching about it.
And especially when kids are involved, you aren’t going to be a good parent or a good spouse, if you don’t put your family first.