I’m not sure if I would want it any other way because I love him just the way he is, but I wish he was home a little more often
I have met the wives of several HVAC technicians in my father’s HVAC company. They seem to have their own little club that goes from having gripe sessions to adoration of their husbands. Many of those women have their own careers, but they seem to love that their husbands are expert HVAC technicians and the important role they play in the community. I used to think they were a soppy group who didn’t know if they liked their husbands or hated them. When they weren’t extolling their virtues, they were complaining their men were never home. Some thought they loved their jobs more than they loved their family. Others said they spent too much time away and they should have married a farmer, or someone else who was home all the time. Then, ten seconds later, they are saying how proud they are of their husbands. It wasn’t until five years later, when I married an HVAC technician, that I understood what they were talking about. HVAC technicians, whether men or women, had an important job in the communities and in the world. Without an HVAC technician, older people could expire because of lack of heating and/or air conditioning. They worked long hours and always seemed to work, but they loved their job. I’m not sure if I would want it any other way because I love him just the way he is, but I wish he was home a little more often. Now that I’m pregnant, I want him home all the time, but that doesn’t happen. He says my mood swings would be enough to keep him away, but it’s winter and people need their heat.