My fathers words to me growing up were to marry someone like your mother. My parents been married 44 years and I’ve always had that as my example.
I’ve known my wife for 23 years. We’ve been together for 21 years. Been married for 17. We’ve grown up together. Been with her over half my life. She’s definitely changed. But so have I. It’s not always been pretty, but this is hard work. But it’s work that we’re always trying to improve on. We get to chase dreams together. On the same page with parenting. Haven’t always been on the same page with sex or finances but again, that’s the work we endure. But we’re building towards something. Our incomes are both high and growing. She’s a great cook. She handles her biz with the kids. Couldn’t ask for a better partner in that regard.
My advice to any young breh (like others have said) is to choose wisely. I had a great example of a mother to find in a wife. Not everyone can say that. I look at some of the homies parents, and now who they’re with and
. A wife is a multiplier. Choose poorly and act crazy towards her, she multiplies negatively. Choose wisely and cultivate her, she multiplies positively.
Ultimately I look at marriage as a business. I have the vision and set the tone for the family. She oversees the operation of that vision and makes sure we stay on task. Except with the finances. That’s all me.