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by: taming

I had a great time at the Farmer's Market. We will eat well for yet another week. On the way out, I passed by a stand selling Ukrainian sausage and pierogi plates. Hummm, RT sure loves that stuff, so I bought some, and yup, headed back to his office with it. On my way there, I had an ah ha moment. You see, when I was a busy single mom, with a demanding full time career, I often said that I needed a wife. This morning, I finally realized that I have somehow become the wife I always dreamt of having.

RT grew up in the 50s, in a small prairie town. His mom wasn't much of a cook, but dinner was on the table, regular as clockwork, every evening. The laundry was done on Monday, and the clean clothes were neatly folded and put away the same day. RT's dad earned a good living, and pretty much left anything house-ish to his wife. It wasn't argued, or debated; that's just the way things were back then.

RT went away to the big city for University, where he was exposed to feminism and women who expected to be treated as equals. It was a confusing time, not just for small town prairie guys, but for women like me, who, as we grew up, lived in homes that were traditional, in that 50s way.
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