I ask myself who is this person I have lived with for 60+ years. I know where we met. When I think of her life, I am impressed. I often read of doubt about becoming parents. We wanted children. I often read about women as homemakers vs. women having outside careers. This woman raised two children with a job teaching elementary school. Her first year, she and three others were in a car accident in which the driver of their car was killed but the others were unhurt. She had a minor in college in school librarianship and she got a much closer job doing that. After more than a decade, she moved to being a high school librarian. After several years, she became a full-time doctoral student and got her PhD. She got a job as a professor in a different university. Both of us tried handling two locations but dropped that and she got a job at mine, teaching about and using those machines called "computers" and creating things called "web pages".
I often read about "matching" - is this person a good match for me as a marital partner? My experience is more in line with the question "Am I seeing the value, the amazing powers and insights of this gem?"
