I'm a stay at home husband, or as I call it, a "kept man"...

[DFW]

24. I absolutely promise not to try to replicate that!

My job takes me to a different country just about every day. I am not in the diplomatic corps, but even so, we don't wear uniforms in my line of work. My wife was a social worker until she retired last year. She gave a lot more than she took, and was rewarded with being mobbed by a corrupt church official who was the overseer of her out-of-unemployment project. I'm the one who pulls in the big money in our family, no two ways about it, always have been.

My wife took time off to have and raise our daughters, but went back to work as soon as they were both in school. Cancer knocked her out for about a year, but she bounced back and is now 12 years cancer-free. She is definitely the neat(-er) one and the master chef, though I can hold my own in the kitchen.

Our younger daughter, on the other hand, is the big earner in her partnership. Her boyfriend works, too, but earns a pittance compared to her big salary as a hotshot international attorney. It all works out if there is a will to keep it together. In our family, that has stayed the one major constant through the generations.