Choc, don't over do the work thing if you have kids at home. Number one job for couples is to raise children but sometimes for the mental health of the stay at home perent, part time work and interests are what is called for.
Acording to ZB, the misses spends lots of time with her passions and leaves the rest of the family to fend for them selves.
The way I look at it, 20 hours a week at a job where the worker gets paid or punished for what they do or don't do is better than working 40 hours a week at a job/hobby where there are few enforcable rules and little rewards that you can count and hold in your hand.
Working with DD kids and deliquents, Limited work hours, clear rules that were enforced, money in hand on pay day, worked better than allowing the kids to be at volunteer jobs with more hours. There they just were slackers and actually got worse.
We see 30 to 60 year old people with issues "as adults" but maybe they are 8 years old in certain parts of their brain. Narcistic? Maybe just being like a kid and never matured in that area.? I am no Phd. expert, just commenting on what little I saw.
