When John and I got married, I memorized the perfect formula to have an ideal marriage:
Respect and honor your husband.
That’s what the married ladies told me when asking for marriage advice, that’s what all the experts said in books, and it is what Scripture commands.
On paper, my naive-wife mind patted myself on the shoulder as I claimed: “Easy, peasy. Done. And got it.”
And then I went to work…
John and my income trajectory over the course of our marriage has been interesting. John is brilliant, went to great business school, and landed a solid job right after graduating from college.