Amen. As a man who has put in quite a few very long weeks at the Law Mines over the past four decades, I did it to support my family, especially when my Bride was about the more important work of raising our three kids. Without that spur, I would have restricted myself to no more than 40 hours a week and taken many fewer cases. Even then my weekends were for the family, with only trial prep or an emergency causing me to break that vow. I would go in early during the work week and stay late if necessary as a result, although living a few minutes from our house allowed me to usually eat supper with our kids and my Bride. No one at the end of this life has ever wished they spent more time at the office.
Amen
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
J.D. Vance is wonderful. He and Blake Masters are the best Senate candidates this cycle. I really hope they win.
I fully support seizing and liquidating the assets of every corporation that supports abortion. Cripple them. And if that’s unconstitutional, then so be it. A wise man once said that the Constitution was “a covenant with death” and “an agreement with hell.” Perish all compromises with tyranny!
And you use this post to brag about how hard you worked and how much time you spent at the office. If housework is so important why didn’t you do it? Did you pay for a maid so your wife really DIDN’T do anything at home?
Actually aptly named Karen, I wasn’t boasting but rather lamenting. The important work my wife was doing was raising the kids; the housework we have always shared since the beginning of our marriage. We have never had a maid. Now go make the people in your own life as unhappy as you doubtless regularly do.
:points up to the sky:
Look! There! It’s the point!
My husband has also done many things he’d rather have not– just him, or just he and I, we could probably cruise along with part time jobs just fine, we’ve got cheap hobbies– because we are a family.