Support

Marriage is a team effort. I am not a believer in completely separating the duties of husband and wife. Obviously, I do more of the child rearing and the hubs does more of the bread winning (well....someday) but we do our best to help each other out. He'll come home and bathe the babe sometimes, he cooked Sunday dinner last week, etc. I, in turn, support him in his school responsibilities. When it's test week, I'll try to read to him or quiz him (which makes me feel really stupid sometimes when I can't pronounce half the words in his books!). Today, my project is to make him a study schedule. That means putting all of his daily classes into an Excel spreadsheet and mapping out times when he can study for the impending Step 1 of his boards (another topic all together). Believe it or not, this is not how I want to spend my day, but I'll do it because I want my little doctor in training to feel like he has a loving wife at home who cares about his education just as much as he does. Sometimes being supportive is tricky business. For example, my husband is NOT a morning person so he asks me to help him wake up in the morning. Well, that is not an easy task my friends. I have to walk the fine line of supportive vs. naggy wife. If he isn't cooperating, I get naggy and when I get naggy he gets grumpy and it's all down hill from there. Nice way to start the morning, huh? I guess I should just start making him a nice breakfast to lure him out of bed with. What I want to know is, am I the only wife out there who is guilty of "nagging?" It's something I definitely need to work on, but I hope I'm not alone  :o)