Be the person you want others to see When you’re a writer whose beat is love and relationships, among other things, your relationship – you’re life really – is far from private.
I don’t mind, for the most part anyway. It’s what I signed up for. And when my wife decided to marry me, it’s what she signed up for too.
It has its ups and downs. But the other day, we got to experience one of the major ups, as it were. It’s something that’s happened before.
But this time it really struck me. We ran into someone my wife had met a half dozen or so years ago. She’s significantly younger than both of us (read, 20-plus years in relation to my wife).