"I'm telling you that I am not going to be the person in this marriage whose career always bends. I'm building this. It's not negotiable. The question is whether you're going to treat my work the way I've been treating yours. Or whether it's just going to be your career that matters in this house."
Some Good Thoughts For Married Female Autonomy BUT...
Reasonable arguments for the married woman's equitable options within the family. The husband was unintentional in his presumptuous decision making and he owned it quickly and made significant restitutions. However the wife was very off-putting in her heavy handed grudge keeping - withholding any forgiveness. The lack of educated awareness concerning stay at home wives - calling the husband's mother's life as being 'partial' - is insulting. The most influential women on earth are moms raising the next generations. Wives and moms volunteering at countless causes and charities and school events. Moms present daily in their kids lives - involving them and leading by example.
Just read another story almost like this. I ended up not liking the woman and I feel the same with this story. It's like the man is always the bad guy. I get the being taken for granted and all that but story tellers can't keep writing books where the guy is always wrong and has to change. Change...yes but the wife can't turn around and do the same thing he did. Example: working on weekends. The author had no chemistry between these two. I won't say AI wrote this but the constant repeated phrases were suspicious. It would have been nice if there were comments about they and the kids come first. Be cuts back and she doesn't all if a sudden get to work on weekends or in the evenings when that should be family time. Just saying. The author attempted a good start but needs to develop characters a bit more. Thus felt...unfeeling.
I can say I would have raged if my husband had done this to me. Leigh straight up made her career important. Respect. Drew didn’t have but Drew figured it out. Loved it.