And he's just decorated with lovely yellow wallpaper!!!
I daresay other people have seen this one to which my attention was drawn by someone tweeting about it: My wife is an accomplished author who also holds down a fulltime job in an unrelated field, mostly for the benefits. When we had our first child last year, we agreed that she would pause her writing career-something had to go with a new baby at home. Except, it turns out she didn’t pause it. She got a great idea for a new novel, wrote it secretly during her lunch break at work, and sold it for $100,000.
Husband is pissed off that she 'went against our deal!'
Weeellll: I do think there's a difference between saying, 'not going to pursue my career', as in, not going to force herself to undertake authorly activity, and finding herself overtaken by INSPIRATION. Which, honestly, one imagines it could be really, really hard to resist or put on hold for the duration, and kudos to her for doing in neat lunchbreak-length chunks, eh?
The mention of 'job in unrelated field, mainly for the benefits' does sound as though it may not be terribly rewarding even if financially necessary (we do note that even with babby in picture no hint that she gives up that...).
Q: What did he give up, 'with a new baby at home'? Even if this wasn't something that was remunerative, it looks like a source of pleasure for wife.
ETA I've seen some suggestions that original was fake. While certainly some of the details might not be entirely accurate, one has seen, alas, sufficient numbers of resentful plaints by men that the laydee in their life has this disturbing habit of doing some occupation for their enjoyment which is not all about him, or desiring time/space free from him &/or the kiddiez: so it did have a certain resonance of general probability.
ETA2 Just spotted the interview with Diana Gabaldon in today's Guardian: Gabaldon began writing novels in absolute secrecy: she knew her husband would have raised an eyebrow at her desire to add writing to her packed schedule, so she’d get up and work between midnight and 4am, before getting on with her day. “He would have said, wait till the kids are in school and you have more time, wait till my business is doing better and you can quit one of your jobs. It would all have made perfect sense, and he would have succeeded in stopping me because my grip on it was very tenuous to start with.”
When is the time? She seized it by the fetlock! (Amy March, I think?)
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