Carrie Underwood: I'd quit my job if my husband told me to

[The Straight Story]

43. Another interesting aspect of this scenario

He won't stay as long in hockey as she can music.

She will get residuals for songs, can make a comeback album, etc and so on but when he is done playing he is pretty much done (unless he wanted to become a coach or announcer, which most do not).

It could be a 'time swap out' - let's spend more time together while I am able to play hockey, then when I am not we will spend time on you making new albums, comeback tour, etc.

Something couples may well wrestle with in such fields.

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On to what you wrote though.

I had good friends in Ridgecrest, CA that your post reminded me of. The lady from the temp agency and I went to dinner and then over to her house one night. I had not been to her house before (this is shortly after we first met). Helped her with a computer issue and we got to talking about all the cool stuff from South Africa around the house.

She said her husband took two weeks a year to travel there. Was not her thing, but he loved going there and exploring the culture (he worked at a small museum in the county). She liked taking her vacations in more tropical places.

She told me the secret to a long relationship was that when you get into one keep doing what you love and make sure the other has space to do what they love as well and every chance you get do things you both love together (like concerts, etc, whatever).

They always had new things to share with each other this way and once in awhile they took a week together taking turns going someplace the other didn't.